What is "combines"

Usage examples of "combines".

A handful of interstellar combines had split up the planet when it was first discovered.

Just take one, telekinesis, and let your mind play with the possibilities… Combines hire him and use him against rival governments.

It kept the combines from the kind of throat-cutting competition they were used to, and they didn't much like that.

The FTA had learned through its spies and informers that some sort of dirty business was taking shape out there, and they figured some combine or alliance of combines was backing it.

There are several combines involved in this, but we don't know which ones.

The combines who'd hired him to do this, to attack the FTA at its heart, thought he was doing it for them.

They're all alike, parasites feeding off the combines that feed off the gutter scum—you and me, Cityboy!

The Maxwell and Faraday Combines are rushing his latest microwafer designs into production on a maximum-priority basis, or so our sources tell us.

If administrative changes are necessary, let the owners an' Combines make them.

Few Draka had ever wished to settle in those remote and desolately cold regions, and even the timber Combines worked only the most accessible parts.

Sector Three was command residence country, Civil, War Directorate, Security and Combines both.

Faraday himself was granted 10% of the capital gratis, the remainder being supplied by the government, the Ferrous Metals and Trevithick Autosteamer Combines, and the Landholders' League and individuals.

The Combines had been able to introduce the technology gradually, and in any case they had capital reserves (and government backing) unmatched elsewhere in a world of Victorian laissez-faire.

Several Combines in the Domination experimented also, but while providing valuable experience these studies also indicated that a long and expensive process of trial-and-error would be necessary before anything useful resulted.

There, in cooperation with engineers from the Naysmith and Ferrous Metals Combines, he quickly perfected his designs.