Consortium
noun
A group of companies or organizations who agree to work together.
The consortium of media companies will jointly decide on the advertising rates.
Often appears as...
- business consortium
- consortium agreement
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Formal
noun
A group of educational institutions that collaborate.
The consortium of colleges allows students to take courses at any campus within the group.
Often appears as...
- educational consortium
- university consortium
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Formal
Academic
noun
A group of companies or organizations who agree to work together.
The consortium of media companies will jointly decide on the advertising rates.
Often appears as...
- business consortium
- consortium agreement
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A group of educational institutions that collaborate.
The consortium of colleges allows students to take courses at any campus within the group.
Often appears as...
- educational consortium
- university consortium
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Joint Ventures
Consortium often involves temporary collaboration for specific projects.
Tech giants formed a consortium to develop a new encryption standard.
Pro Tip 2/3Shared Goals
Members in a consortium work towards a mutual objective, benefitting all parties involved.
The consortium built a bridge, sharing costs and technology.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Using 'consortium' suggests a formal alliance; it's not used for casual partnerships.
The renewable energy consortium focuses on advancing green technologies.
Pro Tip 1/3Joint Ventures
Consortium often involves temporary collaboration for specific projects.
Tech giants formed a consortium to develop a new encryption standard.
Pro Tip 2/3Shared Goals
Members in a consortium work towards a mutual objective, benefitting all parties involved.
The consortium built a bridge, sharing costs and technology.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Using 'consortium' suggests a formal alliance; it's not used for casual partnerships.
The renewable energy consortium focuses on advancing green technologies.
Pro Tip 1/3Joint Ventures
Consortium often involves temporary collaboration for specific projects.
Tech giants formed a consortium to develop a new encryption standard.
Pro Tip 2/3Shared Goals
Members in a consortium work towards a mutual objective, benefitting all parties involved.
The consortium built a bridge, sharing costs and technology.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Using 'consortium' suggests a formal alliance; it's not used for casual partnerships.
The renewable energy consortium focuses on advancing green technologies.
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Science didn't...
Generous postdocs tutored us as we went along. Within a few years, we found the gene. We patented it so that it would be freely available. We created a diagnostic test. We put together a research consortium. We held research meetings and opened a center of excellence.
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Ghostly Yeti Crab Swarms...
crabs are seen in the remotely obtained video crawling over each other near deep sea hydrothermal vents the mostly colorless marine animals live in utter darkness at depths of more than 78 hundred feet the find was made by a consortium of researchers who published
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The new science of...
to bring the most cutting-edge science to vaccine development. We're taking a deeper dive as to how current vaccines protect. We've formed an international consortium to study how hepatitis B vaccine protects newborns from hepatitis B infection. And to do this,
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The race to sequence the...
Deciphering these directions would be a monumental task but could offer unprecedented insight about the human body. In 1990, a consortium of 20 international research centers embarked on the world's largest biological collaboration to accomplish this mission.
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Technology makes way for...
single cable connecting Africa internationally to the rest of the world this is fat-free it is the only cable worth talking about on the continent it only goes down the west coast of the continent it was built by a shareholder consortium and
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Lorrie Faith Cranor:...
to the people in charge of our computer systems and find out what led them to introduce this new policy, and they said that the university had joined a consortium of universities, and one of the requirements of membership
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The Impossible Bridge PIPE...
challenges with the best possible bridge the consortium holds a design competition one of the most spectacular proposals requires building the largest arch bridge in the world I think you don't really get an idea of the
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Miguel Nicolelis: A...
and send it to a new body, a whole body called an exoskeleton, a whole robotic suit that will become the new body of these patients. And you can see an image produced by this consortium.
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Is Your Perfume Made...
me. So this project is about making a consortium of micro organisms that would lead to increasing the yield of agarwood. Hi. Supriya, how's it going? Yeah. Hi. I'm fine. How are you?
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This new telescope might...
For the last decade, I've been leading a group -- a consortium -- international group, to build what will be, when it's finished, the largest optical telescope in existence.
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Science didn't...
Generous postdocs tutored us as we went along. Within a few years, we found the gene. We patented it so that it would be freely available. We created a diagnostic test. We put together a research consortium. We held research meetings and opened a center of excellence.
Video examples
Ghostly Yeti Crab Swarms...
crabs are seen in the remotely obtained video crawling over each other near deep sea hydrothermal vents the mostly colorless marine animals live in utter darkness at depths of more than 78 hundred feet the find was made by a consortium of researchers who published
Video examples
The new science of...
to bring the most cutting-edge science to vaccine development. We're taking a deeper dive as to how current vaccines protect. We've formed an international consortium to study how hepatitis B vaccine protects newborns from hepatitis B infection. And to do this,
Video examples
The race to sequence the...
Deciphering these directions would be a monumental task but could offer unprecedented insight about the human body. In 1990, a consortium of 20 international research centers embarked on the world's largest biological collaboration to accomplish this mission.
Video examples
Technology makes way for...
single cable connecting Africa internationally to the rest of the world this is fat-free it is the only cable worth talking about on the continent it only goes down the west coast of the continent it was built by a shareholder consortium and
Video examples
Lorrie Faith Cranor:...
to the people in charge of our computer systems and find out what led them to introduce this new policy, and they said that the university had joined a consortium of universities, and one of the requirements of membership
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The Impossible Bridge PIPE...
challenges with the best possible bridge the consortium holds a design competition one of the most spectacular proposals requires building the largest arch bridge in the world I think you don't really get an idea of the
Video examples
Miguel Nicolelis: A...
and send it to a new body, a whole body called an exoskeleton, a whole robotic suit that will become the new body of these patients. And you can see an image produced by this consortium.
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
me. So this project is about making a consortium of micro organisms that would lead to increasing the yield of agarwood. Hi. Supriya, how's it going? Yeah. Hi. I'm fine. How are you?
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This new telescope might...
For the last decade, I've been leading a group -- a consortium -- international group, to build what will be, when it's finished, the largest optical telescope in existence.
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Walt Mossberg
American Journalist
It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.
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Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
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Agnes Gund
American Public Servant
I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.
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Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
In the automotive domain, generally speaking, when you look at consortium models, the groups that have leading technology are less incentivized to contribute to the consortia.
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Karyn Kusama
American Director
I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.
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Vitalik Buterin
Russian Businessman
Although the Ethereum blockchain is a public blockchain, it is great to see private and consortium blockchains using the Ethereum code base actively under development.
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Andrea Mitchell
American Journalist
It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.
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Jim Lovell
American Astronaut
I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.
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Sam Allardyce
English Businessman
Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.
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Walt Mossberg
American Journalist
It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.
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Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
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Agnes Gund
American Public Servant
I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.
Quote examples
Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
In the automotive domain, generally speaking, when you look at consortium models, the groups that have leading technology are less incentivized to contribute to the consortia.
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Karyn Kusama
American Director
I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.
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Vitalik Buterin
Russian Businessman
Although the Ethereum blockchain is a public blockchain, it is great to see private and consortium blockchains using the Ethereum code base actively under development.
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Andrea Mitchell
American Journalist
It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.
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Jim Lovell
American Astronaut
I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.
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Sam Allardyce
English Businessman
Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.
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