consortium
noun
, -ˈsȯr-tē-əm\
, -ˈsȯr-tē-ə \
also consortiums
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Synonyms
association, board, brotherhood, chamber, club, college, congress, council, fellowship, fraternity, guild (also gild), institute, institution, league, order, organization, society, sodality
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In mid-August, its board agreed to a 12.98 billion Australian dollar (US$9.24 billion) formalized bid from the consortium. — Robb M. Stewart, WSJ, "Australia Antitrust Regulator Clears $9 Billion Bid for Pipeline Company," 11 Sep. 2018 Management, a consortium of construction companies from around the country known as Six Companies, rejected employee demand for better working conditions and kept construction at a furious pace. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "The Hoover Dam Changed America—And It Might Do It Again," 27 July 2018 Demolition of the Marathon station is the end of the first phase of Uptown Innovation Corridor’s development, according to a statement from the consortium. — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, "Demolition planned for Wednesday morning at corner of MLK, Reading Road," 5 June 2018 Jyoti, which owes about 80.8 billion rupees, also received a single bid from a consortium of wealthy individuals led by Sharad Sanghi, who is chief executive officer of a data center. — Anto Antony, Bloomberg.com, "Banks Seek Wind Up of India Firms Owing $5.8 Billion," 4 Apr. 2018 Studdert has also cobbled together roughly half a million dollars in funding, including a grant from a new consortium of philanthropies that banded together to fund this kind of research. — William Wan, chicagotribune.com, "Tenacious new gun researchers are determined to break cycle of mass shootings," 25 Mar. 2018 Studdert has also cobbled together roughly half a million dollars in funding, including a grant from a new consortium of philanthropies that banded together to fund this kind of research. — William Wan, Washington Post, "Tenacious new gun researchers are determined to break cycle of mass shootings," 24 Mar. 2018 Last year China Unicom, a telecoms firm, raised $12bn from a consortium that included Tencent and Alibaba. — The Economist, "Are China’s state giants reformable?," 1 Mar. 2018 Now, nearly four years after Onni purchased Atrium Village from a consortium of churches that built it in the 1970s, tenants have filed suit with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, "News / Housing Low-income tenants say luxury developer is treating them like ‘bald-headed stepchildren’," 21 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'consortium.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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