consortium
noun
con·sor·tium kən-ˈsȯr-sh(ē-)əm 
-ˈsȯr-tē-əm
plural consortia kən-ˈsȯr-sh(ē-)ə
-ˈsȯr-tē-ə
also consortiums 1
: an agreement, combination, or group (as of companies) formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member
A consortium of researchers decoded the honeybee genome.
2
: association, society
3
: the legal right of one spouse to the company, affection, and assistance of and to sexual relations with the other
Synonyms
- association
- board
- brotherhood
- chamber
- club
- college
- congress
- council
- fellowship
- fraternity
- guild
- gild
- institute
- institution
- league
- order
- organization
- society
- sodality
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
A Japanese consortium invested millions in the technology. a consortium for the prevention of animal cruelty
Recent Examples on the Web The consortium has about 50 sequencing hubs around the world, from Poland to Brazil to Italy, where the data will be crunched. 
Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022 The Future Forum, a research consortium backed by Slack, reported in July that one in five knowledge workers wanted to return to the office. Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2022 In July, Russia took control of the Sakhalin-2 consortium. Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022 The agreement was signed Aug. 16 between LIUNA’s Local 11 and the consortium’s new contractor, a joint venture led by the U.S. subsidiaries of Spanish firms Dragados and OHL. Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 According to a release from the Pima Regional Critical Incident Team — a consortium or southern Arizona law enforcement agencies — the death occurred after corrections officers attempted to moved Welch from one housing unit to another. Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022 Google has created a career certificate program that enables employees to attain key positions in an employer consortium that includes Deloitte, SAP, Verizon and Walmart as well as Google. Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022 The campuses: The Claremont Colleges consortium includes five undergraduate liberal arts colleges — Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona and Scripps — along with Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute. Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 Microchip talked about their PM8596 Smart Memory Solutions that supports the Open Memory interface (OMI, now part of the CXL consortium). Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022 See More
Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022 The Future Forum, a research consortium backed by Slack, reported in July that one in five knowledge workers wanted to return to the office. Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2022 In July, Russia took control of the Sakhalin-2 consortium. Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022 The agreement was signed Aug. 16 between LIUNA’s Local 11 and the consortium’s new contractor, a joint venture led by the U.S. subsidiaries of Spanish firms Dragados and OHL. Katherine Shaver, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 According to a release from the Pima Regional Critical Incident Team — a consortium or southern Arizona law enforcement agencies — the death occurred after corrections officers attempted to moved Welch from one housing unit to another. Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022 Google has created a career certificate program that enables employees to attain key positions in an employer consortium that includes Deloitte, SAP, Verizon and Walmart as well as Google. Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022 The campuses: The Claremont Colleges consortium includes five undergraduate liberal arts colleges — Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona and Scripps — along with Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute. Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 Microchip talked about their PM8596 Smart Memory Solutions that supports the Open Memory interface (OMI, now part of the CXL consortium). Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Latin, fellowship, from consort-, consors — see consort entry 1
First Known Use
1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Legal Definition
consortium
noun
con·sor·tium kən-ˈsȯr-shəm; -shē-əm
plural consortia -shə, -shē-ə also consortiums
also consortiums 1
: an agreement, combination, or group (as of companies) formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member
2
[Medieval Latin, marital partnership, from Latin] : the right of one spouse to the company, affection, and assistance of and to sexual relations with the other
also : the right of a parent or child to the company, affection, and assistance of the other
suing for loss of consortium
compare society consortia
noun
variants also consortiums
as in institutions
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest a consortium for the prevention of animal cruelty Synonyms & Similar Words
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- institutes
- societies
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- organizations
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- leagues
- chambers
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- communities
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- brotherhoods
- gilds
- teams
- sodalities
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- historical method
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- historically
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- historicise
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- historicize
- historicized
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