consortium
Syllables: con·sor·ti·um/kənˈsɔː.ti.əm/US/kənˈsoɹ.ʃəm/
consortium noun: an association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
Noun
consortium (plural consortia or consortiums)
- An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
- A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
- We wanted to share that kind thought with you because today, November 13, is "World Kindness Day" — created back in 1998 by a consortium of kindhearted charities.2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR
- An association or society.
- The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
- A group of symbiotic microbes.
consortium meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic
consortium in Urdu
- انجمن, جماعت, شرکت
consortium in Bengali
- সাহচর্য
consortium in Kannada
- ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ, ಸಹಕಾರಕೂಟ, ಸಹಯೋಗ, ಸಹವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ
consortium in Arabic
- association or combination of businesses
- اِتِّحَاد مَالِيّ ittiḥād māliyy, اِئْتِلَاف شَرِكَات iʔtilāf šarikāt
More languagesFewer languages
- consortium in Malay
- konsortium
- consortium in Indonesian
- konsorsium
- consortium in Persian
- کُنسُرسیوم konsorsyum
- consortium in Vietnamese
- côngxoocxiom, công-xoóc-xi-om
Examples of consortium in a sentence
- I am a research assistant for a cryoscience consortium and my chief duty is to conduct reviews of current scholarship on Antarctic ice movement.
- Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
- "Using sequencing data combined with spectral fluorescence imaging, we have discovered a multigenus, highly organized microbial consortium in human dental plaque."
Synonyms of consortium
Forms of consortium
| plural | consortia |
|---|---|
| plural | consortiums |
Origin of consortium
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.
Words formed from consortium
Phrases with consortium
Questions about consortium
- What does consortium mean?
- Consortium means an association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
- What is consortium in Urdu?
- Consortium in Urdu is انجمن, جماعت, شرکت. See Consortium meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is consortium?
- Consortium is a noun.
- How do you pronounce consortium?
- Consortium is pronounced /kənˈsɔː.ti.əm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of consortium?
- The plural of consortium is consortia.
Words near consortium in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: consortium (page history and authors); consortium (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consortium (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consortium (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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