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consolidate
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Word definitions for consolidate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consolidated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating .] To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. He fixed and consolidated the earth. --T. Burnet. To unite, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "to compact into one body," from Latin consolidatus , past participle of consolidare "to make solid," from com- "together" (see com- ) + solidare "to make solid" (see solid ). Meaning "to make firm or strong" is from mid-16c. Related: Consolidated ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN company ▪ Why, then, have companies chosen to consolidate these activities into a single function? ▪ The county wanted one company to consolidate administrative services, Simonsen said, not two firms working toward that ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. unite into one; "The companies consolidated" make firm or secure; strengthen; "consolidate one's gains"; "consolidate one's hold on first place" bring together into a single whole or system; "The town and county schools are being consolidated" form into ...
Usage examples of consolidate.
Star Forces are reportedly consolidating new positions near Palm and Iberiand, and the ground troops already on Adirondack are expected to continue guerrilla activity against the occupation units.
Malik the First who united Alpha Centauri Alif Prime and left it to Malik the Second to consolidate the whole Alif system .
The Angevin, who above all things liked to count and consolidate his gains in conflict, foresaw a long train of inconclusive aggressions and reprisals between church and state in which his arm, however powerful, could not effectively come at the ghostly armor of his antagonist.
By building its own network of warehouses and its own fleet of trucks to make deliveries to stores, the company was able to consolidate its ordering and buy in volume just like the biggest retailers.
King Roari and the consolidated Argonian Army and Navy, and the three-dragon Air Force, have already set sail to foil the blackhearted aggressors.
One of the women taught at the consolidated school that was between Bluestem and Gray Horse.
Consolidated Systems, operating from the manmade planetoid called the Ricot Habitat, a Coherent Light project that had survived its builder, and Brighter Suns, headquartered on Vesta.
There was a rumor, which Consolidated Systems and Brighter Suns did not deny, that they had proven susceptible to Earth bacteria.
Alpha reached high enough in Consolidated Systems to attract the attention of the Brighter Suns hierarchy.
And then, since Consolidated and Brighter Suns both seemed to have it, that the drug had been imported by the Powers and was being kept secret, possibly because it gave the two policorps some unforeseen edge.
But even if I stayed, it meant new bunkmates, perhaps even a new sergeant, as depleted dorms were consolidated and merged.
Duala with the object of consolidating the Cameroons, Equatorial Africa, and Chad, and extending influence of de Gaulle to Libreville.
At successive stages of the concentration, rings after the manner of those of Saturn separated from the disklike mass, each breaking up and consolidating into a body of nebulous matter which followed in the same path, generally forming rings which became by the same process the moons or satellites of the sphere.
A branch of the ancient Guelphic House reigned at Hanover, and had succeeded by politic and constant effort in consolidating half a dozen territories into one important principality.
Instead, as the three Titans consolidated their hold on Hessra, they were forced to entertain themselves by torturing the captive secondary monks, humans who had given over their lives to tending the Cogitors.