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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consolidate
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 goal.
▪ The company said it has consolidated its services into four groups to improve operations.
▪ Computer networking companies have been consolidating rapidly as the industry becomes more competitive and demand for products increases.
control
▪ Those who did well out of coffee growing started employing labourers and consolidated their control over the best land.
▪ When fiscal crisis erupts, they consolidate agencies and centralize control.
hold
▪ Intermittent war rages across Ulthuan once more as the Dark Elves consolidate their hold on the northern lands. 602 Caradryel dies peacefully.
operation
▪ Lockheed Martin will likely save hundreds of millions of dollars through consolidating overlapping operations between it and Loral.
position
▪ This work is consolidating Johnson Matthey's position as a world leader in precious metal refining.
▪ Aung San was consolidating his overall position.
▪ Overall these efforts will consolidate Johnson Matthey's position as a leading supplier of high-technology materials.
▪ A broken spinnaker halyard put paid to Law's spirited last-minute effort, while Peters failed to consolidate his position.
▪ But now Moira's gone, Tamar's wasting no time consolidating her position.
▪ The deal would consolidate Lafarge's position as the world's leading cement company.
▪ I thought we might need the extra time to help consolidate our position.
▪ The prince himself was taken back to Northampton, where he remained while Gloucester consolidated his position.
power
▪ These tactics illustrate how strategic behaviour can be used to consolidate existing market power.
▪ Five months later, Diem consolidated his power.
▪ This seemed the best way to draw the wavering states away from Washington and consolidate Southern power.
▪ What was the significance of the army in securing and consolidating Hitler's power before 1931? 2.
▪ Foremost among these was his need to consolidate his power.
▪ This had been consolidated in power by the end of the fourteenth century, after the one serious attempt to overthrow it.
reputation
▪ We look forward in 2000 to consolidating our reputation as one of Britain's premier political publishers.
▪ The Wedding Present consolidated their reputation as a fine live band during 1988 but released a dearth of new material.
▪ This second great spurt of legislation consolidated Roosevelt's reputation as a reformer and helped to ensure his re-election in 1936.
■ VERB
help
▪ His teacher's explanation would help to consolidate his previous experiences.
▪ The experience of history may have helped to consolidate such a sense of trust.
▪ I thought we might need the extra time to help consolidate our position.
▪ We now are offering them help in consolidating their independence and rebuilding their economies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Successful advertising helped them to consolidate their position as the largest computer company in Europe.
▪ They took out a loan to consolidate their credit card bills.
▪ We'll be consolidating departments and cutting the mayor's staff by 61%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A poignant or shrewd quotation may consolidate or embellish your final remarks.
▪ Again, the grant consolidated existing ducal interests, rounding out Gloucester's influence in the honour of Pickering further east.
▪ Lockheed Martin will likely save hundreds of millions of dollars through consolidating overlapping operations between it and Loral.
▪ The engineering and design function was likewise consolidated into a single vertically aligned group.
▪ The original porous bone has been consolidated to become much heavier than it would have been in life.
▪ Where a public law application is consolidated with private law proceedings, however, a court welfare officer may already be involved.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consolidate

Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consolidated; p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating.]

  1. 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.

  2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.

    Consolidating numbers into unity.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]

    Syn: To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress.

Consolidate

Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, a. [L. consolidatus, p. pr. of consolidare to make firm; con- + solidare to make firm; solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Consound.] Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [R.]

A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate.
--Elyot.

Consolidate

Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, v. i. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate.
--Bacon.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consolidate

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; consolidating.

Wiktionary
consolidate

  1. (context obsolete English) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. v

  2. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join. 2 To make stronger or more solid.

WordNet
consolidate

  1. v. unite into one; "The companies consolidated"

  2. make firm or secure; strengthen; "consolidate one's gains"; "consolidate one's hold on first place"

  3. bring together into a single whole or system; "The town and county schools are being consolidated"

  4. form into a solid mass or whole; "The mud had consolidated overnight"

  5. make or form into a solid or hardened mass; "consolidate fibers into boards"

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.