conglomerate
A conglomerate is a group of things, especially companies, put together to form one. If you are rich enough to buy a TV network, a record company, several newspapers, and a radio station, you too can own a media conglomerate.
The root of conglomerate is glomus, a Latin word for “ball.” So think of a conglomerate as a bunch of different things balled together. Before it came to describe giant corporations, a conglomerate was a rock formed from different kinds of minerals. Conglomerate can also be used as a verb — like when your media companies conglomerated successfully.
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collect or gather
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composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass
“the
conglomerate peoples of New England”-
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combined
made or joined or united into one
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combined
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a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
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a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
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publishing conglomerate, publishing empire
a conglomerate of publishing companies
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corp, corporation
a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state
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publishing conglomerate, publishing empire