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consolidation

UK/kənˌsɒlɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/US/kənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃən/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,820 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: consolidations

Consolidation is the joining or strengthening of separate parts. Industry consolidation, debt consolidation, a period of consolidation.

In business it means firms merging until few are left, and in personal finance it means rolling several debts into one loan, which lowers the payment and usually raises the total. In law it is the gathering of scattered statutes into one act.

Definitions of consolidation

  1. 1nounconsolidationThe joining or strengthening of separate parts.C1

    “The merger was part of a wider consolidation of the banking industry.”

consolidation is a joining.

Where it comes from

Latin consolidatio comes from consolidare, to make firm, from com plus solidus, solid.

  1. Latin

    consolidatio

  2. English, today

    consolidation

From Latin consolidatio, from cōnsolidō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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consolidation in the wild

  • Concentration of media ownership, also known as media consolidation or media convergence, is a process wherein fewer individuals or organizations control shares of the mass media.

    Concentration of media ownership

  • Research in the 1990s and early 2000s suggested then-increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated where a few companies own much of the market.

    Concentration of media ownership

  • Debt consolidation is sometimes offered by loan sharks, charging clients exorbitant interest rates.

    Debt consolidation

  • In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones.

    Consolidation (business)

  • The taxation term of consolidation refers to the treatment of a group of companies and other entities as one entity for tax purposes.

    Consolidation (business)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.