combines

Noun

combine (plural combines)

1. Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic or fraudulent intentions.
   • The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
2. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
   • His grandmother worked in the stamping plant of the sheet and tin combine.

   Synonyms:

   kombinat

3. An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
4. A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.
   • If you purchased this book chances are that you are planning on participating in a football combine or pro-day test.2008, Scott Shetler, Optimal Performance Techniques for the Football Combine, page 5

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