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business 商業 a large company formed by joining together different firms 聯合大公司；企業集團 He turned the business into a huge media conglomerate. 他令公司成爲一個龐大的大衆傳媒聯合集團。
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc2the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates 大型制藥聯合企業 one of seven global media conglomerates that dominate the industry 主導該行業的全球七大媒體聯合企業之一 a/an chemical/industrial/engineering/mining conglomerate 化學／工業／工程／礦業聯合集團 a/an vast/international/multinational conglomerate 大型/國際/跨國企業集團
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- giant
- huge
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- [singular] (formal)
a number of things or parts that are put together to form a whole 合成物；組合物；聚合物 - [uncountable] (
geology 地質學 a type of rock made of small stones held together by dried clay 礫岩
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective describing something gathered up into a rounded mass): from Latin conglomeratus, past participle of conglomerare, from con- ‘together’ + glomus, glomer- ‘ball’. The geological sense dates from the early 19th cent.; the other noun senses are later.