| 单词 | consolidation |
| 释义 | consolidation (once / 1820 pages) n In a tough economy, you see a lot of consolidation. This could be smaller businesses joining together or the consolidation of debt, as in combining three credit card payments into one. Anywhere there’s consolidation, there’s merging, joining, and combining. You can see the word solid at the heart of consolidation, and its Latin roots will tell you that it means “to make solid together.” The goal of consolidation is really just that, to combine things in order to make them stronger or more beneficial. If you’re good at art and your friend is good at science, you may want to form a consolidation to take the science fair by storm. WORD FAMILYconsolidation: consolidations+/consolidate: consolidated, consolidates, consolidating, consolidation, consolidative/consolidated: unconsolidated USAGE EXAMPLESThe U.S. semiconductor industry is facing an unprecedented wave of consolidations, with mergers and acquisitions in the sector valued last year at over $100 billion. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) In late November, Chief Financial Officer Tarek Robbiati said the company needed to improve its own business before thinking about consolidation. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) Indeed, consolidation would help the entire industry raise prices and return to growth. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1n combining into a solid mass Hyper combine, combining an occurrence that results in things being united 2n something that has consolidated into a compact mass he dropped the consolidation into the acid bath Hyper natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man 3n the act of combining into an integral whole a consolidation of two corporations after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them Syn|Hypo|Hyper integration centralisation, centralization the act of consolidating power under a central control incorporationconsolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body amalgamation, merger, unitingthe combination of two or more commercial companies vertical combination, vertical integrationabsorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution horizontal combination, horizontal integrationabsorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level combination, combining, compounding the act of combining things to form a new whole |
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