consortium
nouna group of people, countries, companies, etc. who are working together on a particular project （合作进行某项工程的）财团，银团，联营企业 the Anglo-French consortium that built the Channel Tunnel 修建英吉利海峡隧道的英法财团 Our company forms part of a consortium of local businesses working for environmental change. 我们公司是致力于环境变化的当地企业联盟的一部分。
Word Originearly 19th cent. (in the sense ‘partnership’): from Latin, from consors ‘sharing, partner’, from con- ‘together with’ + sors, sort- ‘lot, destiny’.