Corporation vs. Conglomerate

Corporation and Conglomerate Definitions
Corporation
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.
Conglomerate
To form or gather into a mass or whole.
Corporation
Such a body created for purposes of government. Also called body corporate.
Conglomerate
To form into or merge with a corporate conglomerate.
Corporation
A group of people combined into or acting as one body.
Conglomerate
To cause to form into a mass or whole.
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Corporation
(Informal) A protruding abdominal region; a potbelly.
Conglomerate
A corporation made up of a number of different companies that operate in diversified fields.
Corporation
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.
Conglomerate
A collected heterogeneous mass; a cluster
A conglomerate of color, passion, and artistry.
Corporation
The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
Conglomerate
(Geology) A coarse-grained sedimentary rock consisting of rounded to subangular rock fragments cemented together by hardened silt, clay, calcium carbonate, or similar material.
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Corporation
(historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
Conglomerate
Gathered into a mass; clustered.
Corporation
A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).
Conglomerate
(Geology) Made up of loosely cemented heterogeneous material.
Corporation
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.
Conglomerate
A cluster of heterogeneous things.
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Corporation
A business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state
Conglomerate
(business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
Corporation
Slang terms for a paunch
Conglomerate
(geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
Conglomerate
Clustered together into a mass.
Conglomerate flowers
Conglomerate
(geology) Composed of fragments of rock, pebbles, or stones cemented together.
Conglomerate
(transitive) To combine together into a larger mass.
Conglomerate
To combine together into a larger corporation.
Conglomerate
Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate.
Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
Conglomerate
Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
Conglomerate
Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
Conglomerate
That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together.
Conglomerate
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.
A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.
Conglomerate
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Conglomerate
A composite rock made up of particles of varying size
Conglomerate
A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
Conglomerate
Collect or gather;
Journals are accumulating in my office
The work keeps piling up
Conglomerate
Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass;
The conglomerate peoples of New England