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business 商业 a large company formed by joining together different firms 联合大公司；企业集团 He turned the business into a huge media conglomerate. 他令公司成为一个庞大的大众传媒联合集团。
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc2the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates 大型制药联合企业 one of seven global media conglomerates that dominate the industry 主导该行业的全球七大媒体联合企业之一 a/an chemical/industrial/engineering/mining conglomerate 化学／工业／工程／矿业联合集团 a/an vast/international/multinational conglomerate 大型/国际/跨国企业集团
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- giant
- huge
- …
- [singular] (formal)
a number of things or parts that are put together to form a whole 合成物；组合物；聚合物 - [uncountable] (
geology 地质学 a type of rock made of small stones held together by dried clay 砾岩
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.