CONGLOMERATE Synonyms: 139 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

kən-ˈgläm-rət

Definition of conglomerate

as in empire

a group of businesses or enterprises under one control the huge media conglomerate owns TV and radio stations, a cable company, and a movie studio

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verb

kən-ˈglä-mə-ˌrāt

as in to gather

to come together into one body or place people conglomerated in the downtown streets for an impromptu victory celebration

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as in to accumulate

to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass over the years the town's discarded junk conglomerated at the bottom of the river

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adjective

as in composite

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Recent Examples of conglomerate

Noun

Its members are independent producers, with no studios, conglomerates or state bodies involved. — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 Maybe don’t get into biz with the media conglomerate that owns everything! — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2026

Verb

The quickly conglomerating media industry led Henson to consider corporate partnerships to assist with his goal of further expanding the Muppet media universe. — Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026 The Korea Times reported that the alliance, made up of private equity firm MBK Partners and conglomerate YoongPoong, said the plan was designed for company Chairman Choi Yun-beom to hold on to management control. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025

Adjective

Her approach combines catalog ownership, touring, streaming, and direct sales, creating a conglomerate effect with herself as the charismatic CEO and her superfans as loyal, repeat customers. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025 Sports franchises are increasingly conglomerate in nature and often include multiple sports teams, a stadium or arena, ancillary property development, sports adjacent businesses, and more. — Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conglomerate

Recent Examples of Synonyms for conglomerate

Noun

The industrialist Vincent Bolloré has assembled a vast media empire that includes CNews, a Fox News-style channel that has become an important platform for the nationalist right.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Back at The Pynk, Uncle Clifford (Nicco Annan) dreams of expanding her empire while Roulette breaks the club’s cardinal rule to build hers.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

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Adjective

According to Rouse, the FBI lab in Virginia created three angles of Jackson’s composite face and released it to the public in late 2023.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The high cost of ice hockey gear can be a barrier to entry for players—particularly composite sticks, which can cost around $400 and may break after just a few months of play.

— Avery Stone, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of composite

Verb

All of it converges on the single event of a physician deciding to write the prescription.

— Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Chez Fonfon sits at the crux of Five Points South, a neighborhood named for five streets that converge in a star shape where streetcars connecting the then suburb of Highland to the city once rumbled.

— Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of converge

Adjective

The team also highlighted that electric motors power a wide range or technologies, from hybrid or electric vehicles, to industrial systems and household appliances.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
European leaders fear Moscow's wider ambitions on the continent and accuse Russia of sabotage as part of a hybrid war.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of hybrid

Verb

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which oversees vehicle safety, largely relies on automakers to certify that their cars meet federal standards.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Even a slight misalignment could leave visible defects where colors meet, while four hotends introduce more components that could potentially fail.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of meet

Adjective

Large language models train on amalgamated content from millions of writers to predict the next logical word.

— Marissa Brassfield, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.

— Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026

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