Corporation vs Conglomerate - What's the difference?
corporation | conglomerate |
A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
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(slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.
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A cluster of heterogeneous things.
* Trench
(business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
(geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
* Lyell
Clustered together into a mass.
* Francis Bacon
* Cheyne
(geology) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together.
To combine together into a larger mass.
(business) To combine together into a larger corporation.
As nouns the difference between corporation and conglomerate
is that corporation is a group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members while conglomerate is a cluster of heterogeneous things.As an adjective conglomerate is
clustered together into a mass.As a verb conglomerate is
to combine together into a larger mass.corporation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
- 'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation .'
- He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.
Derived terms
* corporate veil * British Broadcasting CorporationExternal links
* *conglomerate
English
(wikipedia conglomerate)Noun
(en noun)- A conglomerate of marvellous anecdotes.
- A conglomerate , therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.
See also
* *Adjective
(en adjective)- beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate
- Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
- conglomerate flowers