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.

  2. This consortium has thirteen members.

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

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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