Corporation vs. Conglomerate

An entity such as a business, municipality, or organization, that involves more than one person but that has met the legal requirements to operate as a single person, so that it may enter into contracts and engage in transactions under its own identity.

To form or gather into a mass or whole.

Such a body created for purposes of government. Also called body corporate.

To form into or merge with a corporate conglomerate.

A group of people combined into or acting as one body.

To cause to form into a mass or whole.

(Informal) A protruding abdominal region; a potbelly.

A corporation made up of a number of different companies that operate in diversified fields.

A body corporate, 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.

A collected heterogeneous mass; a cluster

The municipal governing body of a borough or city.

(Geology) A coarse-grained sedimentary rock consisting of rounded to subangular rock fragments cemented together by hardened silt, clay, calcium carbonate, or similar material.

(historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.

Gathered into a mass; clustered.

A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).

(Geology) Made up of loosely cemented heterogeneous material.

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

A cluster of heterogeneous things.

A business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state

(business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.

Slang terms for a paunch

(geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.

Clustered together into a mass.

(geology) Composed of fragments of rock, pebbles, or stones cemented together.

(transitive) To combine together into a larger mass.

To combine together into a larger corporation.

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.

Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.

A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; - opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.

To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

A composite rock made up of particles of varying size

A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

Collect or gather;

Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass;