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Conglomerate   /kənglˈɑmərət/   Listen
Conglomerate

noun
1.
A composite rock made up of particles of varying size.  Synonym: pudding stone.
2.
A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization.  Synonym: empire.
verb
(past & past part. conglomerated; pres. part. conglomerating)
1.
Collect or gather.  Synonyms: accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, pile up.  "The work keeps piling up"
adjective
1.
Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass.



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"Conglomerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... A complex, conglomerate, Jack-of-all-Trades! Well, I trust he'll be master of some of them! Largo al factotum! He's game for all tasks, and—I wish I was sure what would come of them. Most representative? Palpable that! And his plans most sublime (so he ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892 • Various

... observed in this land, extending from the Romanesque types of Frejus, Perigueux and Angouleme to that classical degeneration commonly called the Renaissance, a more offensive example of which could hardly be found than in the conglomerate structure of St. Etienne du Mont at Paris, or the more modern and, if possible, even more ugly Cathedral Churches at Arras, Cambrai, ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun

... form the eastern and most lofty extreme of a land-trending to the south-west on its northern coast, and to the south on its eastern shore. The cape itself, full 1000 feet in altitude, was formed of red sandstone and conglomerate, very abrupt to the eastward, but dipping with an ...
— Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; • Sherard Osborn

... represent the opinions of several persons, thus expresses itself to us: "We are happy to write this letter to you in a conglomerate manner." ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 42, No. 3, March 1888 • Various

... beginning to look like a regular outfit. From the fifteen men he had brought up from Culpepper in mid-January, its effective and dependable strength had grown to about sixty riders, augmented from raid to raid by the "Conglomerate" fringe, who were now accepted as guerrillas-pro-tem without too much enthusiasm. A new type of recruit had begun to appear, the man who came to enlist on a permanent basis. Some were Maryland secessionists, like James Williamson, who, after the war, wrote an authoritative ...
— Rebel Raider • H. Beam Piper


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