Meaning

5 senses
  1. An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.

    Konsortium, Kooperation

    консо́рциумkonsórcium

    консо́рціумkonsórcium

    an association of companies for some definite purpose

  2. A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.

    Interessenverband, Interessengemeinschaft, Arbeitsgemeinschaft

  3. An association or society.

    Bund, Verband, Gesellschaft

  4. The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.

    eheliches Recht

  5. A group of symbiotic microbes.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. He's looking to form consortiums and alliances with the private sector, with the universities.

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  2. This consortium has thirteen members.

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  3. Forming consortiums or joint ventures is one way your business can increase its capacity to respond to and deliver public sector contracts.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
association or combination of businesses:
Русский
By meaning 1
association or combination of businesses:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
association or combination of businesses:
similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions:
association or society:
legal right:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.

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Forms

plural: consortia / consortiums
Singularconsortium
Pluralconsortia / consortiums

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an association of companies for some definite purpose:poolsyndicate

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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