Conglomerate
noun
A large company that is made up of diverse businesses.
The global conglomerate has branches in more than fifty countries.
Often appears as...
- multinational conglomerate
- business conglomerate
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Business
adjective
Consisting of parts or disparate elements brought together.
The song is a conglomerate of various musical styles.
Often appears as...
- conglomerate company
- conglomerate mixture
noun
A rock consisting of individual stones or pieces, that have become hard and cemented together.
The cliff is chiefly composed of conglomerate rock.
Often appears as...
- conglomerate rock
- conglomerate stone
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Geology
noun
A large company that is made up of diverse businesses.
The global conglomerate has branches in more than fifty countries.
Often appears as...
- multinational conglomerate
- business conglomerate
Usage tips
Business
adjective
Consisting of parts or disparate elements brought together.
The song is a conglomerate of various musical styles.
Often appears as...
- conglomerate company
- conglomerate mixture
noun
A rock consisting of individual stones or pieces, that have become hard and cemented together.
The cliff is chiefly composed of conglomerate rock.
Often appears as...
- conglomerate rock
- conglomerate stone
Usage tips
Geology
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Pro Tip 1/3Business Structure
Understanding a conglomerate helps grasp how varied businesses form a single corporation under one management.
Each brand within the conglomerate operates independently, yet they share a common corporate structure.
Pro Tip 2/3Market Presence
A conglomerate usually has a widespread market presence and might seem omnipresent.
The conglomerate's products range from electronics to insurance, dominating various market sectors.
Pro Tip 3/3Diverse Portfolios
Conglomerates often have a diverse portfolio, reducing business risk across different industries.
Despite the tech industry's downturn, the conglomerate's investment in healthcare kept its profits stable.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Structure
Understanding a conglomerate helps grasp how varied businesses form a single corporation under one management.
Each brand within the conglomerate operates independently, yet they share a common corporate structure.
Pro Tip 2/3Market Presence
A conglomerate usually has a widespread market presence and might seem omnipresent.
The conglomerate's products range from electronics to insurance, dominating various market sectors.
Pro Tip 3/3Diverse Portfolios
Conglomerates often have a diverse portfolio, reducing business risk across different industries.
Despite the tech industry's downturn, the conglomerate's investment in healthcare kept its profits stable.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Structure
Understanding a conglomerate helps grasp how varied businesses form a single corporation under one management.
Each brand within the conglomerate operates independently, yet they share a common corporate structure.
Pro Tip 2/3Market Presence
A conglomerate usually has a widespread market presence and might seem omnipresent.
The conglomerate's products range from electronics to insurance, dominating various market sectors.
Pro Tip 3/3Diverse Portfolios
Conglomerates often have a diverse portfolio, reducing business risk across different industries.
Despite the tech industry's downturn, the conglomerate's investment in healthcare kept its profits stable.
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Afra Raymond: Three...
for over three and a half years is for transparency and accountability around the bailout of CL Financial. CL Financial is the Caribbean's largest ever conglomerate, okay? And without getting into all of the details, it is said to have collapsed — I'm using my words very carefully —
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What rocks on Mars can...
break a rock right oh I heard someone say oh when you just break a rock right it shatters into all these fragments it requires water tumbling tumbling tumbling to wear down the edges to form to form these rounded rocks so conglomerate is the name of the rock and
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How animals and plants...
When I go back to the village where I grew up, I no longer find those fields and swamps that I knew from my youth. The village has now been absorbed by the growing conglomeration of Rotterdam, and instead, I find shopping malls and I find suburbs and bus lanes.
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This Guy Is Making...
What it does is, it has silicon dioxide in it, amorphous silicon dioxide. It's a natural glue. It's actually forming these broken polymer chains if you mix into it, it actually starts to come together, conglomerates, into much much stronger materials.
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Andrew Blum: What is the...
worked for Tata Communications, the communications wing of Tata, the big Indian industrial conglomerate. And I've never met him. We've only communicated via this telepresence system, which always makes me think of him as the man inside the Internet.
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How love can help repair...
if we treat any human being or any group of people as though they were a conglomerate we run the risk of stereotyping them reducing them in our words and in our actions and turning them into an abstraction and that's not going to be very helpful
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Stefan Sagmeister: The...
he talked about a conglomeration of various layers of meaning. Which I understood after I translated it from architecture speech in to regular English, basically as logo making. And I understood that the building itself was a logo.
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What is the Internet,...
Indian industrial conglomerate and I never met him we've only communicated via this telepresence system which always makes me think of him as the man inside the internet and he is English the undersea cable industry is dominated
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Mars Up Close, Part 1:...
They found pebbles that were very interesting because they seemed to suggest the presence of water at some point. They found other conglomerate rocks that did the same and also they were in the proximity to
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Chris McKnett: The...
off the road. So awesome, right? Another example is Pentair. Pentair is a U.S. industrial conglomerate, and about a decade ago, they sold their core power tools business
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Afra Raymond: Three...
for over three and a half years is for transparency and accountability around the bailout of CL Financial. CL Financial is the Caribbean's largest ever conglomerate, okay? And without getting into all of the details, it is said to have collapsed — I'm using my words very carefully —
Video examples
What rocks on Mars can...
break a rock right oh I heard someone say oh when you just break a rock right it shatters into all these fragments it requires water tumbling tumbling tumbling to wear down the edges to form to form these rounded rocks so conglomerate is the name of the rock and
Video examples
How animals and plants...
When I go back to the village where I grew up, I no longer find those fields and swamps that I knew from my youth. The village has now been absorbed by the growing conglomeration of Rotterdam, and instead, I find shopping malls and I find suburbs and bus lanes.
Video examples
This Guy Is Making...
What it does is, it has silicon dioxide in it, amorphous silicon dioxide. It's a natural glue. It's actually forming these broken polymer chains if you mix into it, it actually starts to come together, conglomerates, into much much stronger materials.
Video examples
Andrew Blum: What is the...
worked for Tata Communications, the communications wing of Tata, the big Indian industrial conglomerate. And I've never met him. We've only communicated via this telepresence system, which always makes me think of him as the man inside the Internet.
Video examples
How love can help repair...
if we treat any human being or any group of people as though they were a conglomerate we run the risk of stereotyping them reducing them in our words and in our actions and turning them into an abstraction and that's not going to be very helpful
Video examples
Stefan Sagmeister: The...
he talked about a conglomeration of various layers of meaning. Which I understood after I translated it from architecture speech in to regular English, basically as logo making. And I understood that the building itself was a logo.
Video examples
What is the Internet,...
Indian industrial conglomerate and I never met him we've only communicated via this telepresence system which always makes me think of him as the man inside the internet and he is English the undersea cable industry is dominated
Video examples
Mars Up Close, Part 1:...
They found pebbles that were very interesting because they seemed to suggest the presence of water at some point. They found other conglomerate rocks that did the same and also they were in the proximity to
Video examples
Chris McKnett: The...
off the road. So awesome, right? Another example is Pentair. Pentair is a U.S. industrial conglomerate, and about a decade ago, they sold their core power tools business
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Cesar Chavez
American Activist
Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.
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Wang Jianlin
Chinese Businessman
Wanda and Reliance are two of the largest private conglomerates in their respective countries. By joining our strengths together, we hope our cooperation will bring mutual benefits and great results.
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Lawrence Eagleburger
American Diplomat
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
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Fay Godwin
British Photographer
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Simon Toyne
British Writer
We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
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C. Z. Guest
American Actress
I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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Willard Scott
American Entertainer
I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
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Joe Kaeser
German Businessman
We understand that conglomerates have no future.
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Jim Pattison
Canadian Businessman
In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.
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Cesar Chavez
American Activist
Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.
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Wang Jianlin
Chinese Businessman
Wanda and Reliance are two of the largest private conglomerates in their respective countries. By joining our strengths together, we hope our cooperation will bring mutual benefits and great results.
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Lawrence Eagleburger
American Diplomat
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
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Fay Godwin
British Photographer
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Simon Toyne
British Writer
We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Quote examples
C. Z. Guest
American Actress
I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
Quote examples
Willard Scott
American Entertainer
I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
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Joe Kaeser
German Businessman
We understand that conglomerates have no future.
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Jim Pattison
Canadian Businessman
In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.
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