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consortium

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
West Coast Consortium were a British psychedelic pop group which recorded for Pye Records between 1967 and 1970. They were best known for the single "All the Love in the World" released as simply "Consortium", written by Geoff Simpson and recorded with ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn: pool , syndicate ] [also: consortia (pl)]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture. 2 A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations. 3 An association or society. 4 (context legal ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, from Latin consortium "fellowship, participation, society," from consors (genitive consortis ; see consort (n.)). Earlier, in British law, a term for "right of husband's access to his wife."

Usage examples of consortium.

Earthside was aboil with negotiations between the Consortium and Airbus, with lawyers angrily slapping writs on each other, over fuel four hundred million miles away.

After dozens of phone calls, she and Penelope Briggs had managed to put together a consortium of parents, alums, local businesspeople, and miscellaneous Travelers who wanted to buy St.

The fallout from the scandal also sent shock waves through a shadowy consortium of power brokers, politicians, and businesspeople, many of whom had invested heavily in the rival firm on the basis of insider knowledge.

Lunar Associates set out to explore near-Earth asteroids in search of raw material which could be sold to the multinational companies that had formed a consortium to build an orbital colony in a Lagrange point in cislunar space.

A consortium to which the company belongs faces new charges of bribery, this time over another dam project in Lesotho in Southern Africa.

The rest represented a Taurian archaeological consortium from Arcadian space.

His purpose was to collect some forty million sesterces Auletes owed a consortium of Roman bankers, chief of whom was Rabirius.

Then, my voice huskier than it had been before, I explained how all the consortia that dumped at Devonshire were so delighted to have their records examined.

The more I learn about how this fire started and the magics that went into it, the better my chance of correlating those data with one or more of the consortia that use the Devonshire dump.

Space probes of many nations and consortiums were now programmed with previously unimaginable accuracy.

There were a few larger structures among all the plastic huts and frosted bulges a multitiered branch of the Bank of Neptune, a highrise hotel called the Ice Palace, a tremendous igloo bearing the crystalline logo of the interplanetary ice consortium, a massive cube made out of giant logs that could only be the headquarters of Cometary Lumber Multicorp.

Gaius Flavius Hemicillus, who approached Atticus and asked that canny plutocrat to put himself at the head of a consortium of financial magicians willing to lend the Liberators money for purposes Hemicillus left unspecified.

Gold Seekers Ltd. was formed by a consortium of industrialists from Canada and England.

The consortium intends to get the most information out of each new structure by using existing knowledge about related structures to group proteins into families that are most likely to share the same architectural features.

As it turned out, Prince Jeta was part of a consortium that was involved in the reopening of the silk road.