consortium
noun
con·sor·tium
kən-ˈsȯr-sh(ē-)əm 
-ˈsȯr-tē-əm
plural consortia
kən-ˈsȯr-sh(ē-)ə
-ˈsȯr-tē-ə
also consortiums
1
: an agreement, combination, or group (as of companies) formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member
A consortium of researchers decoded the honeybee genome.
2
3
: the legal right of one spouse to the company, affection, and assistance of and to sexual relations with the other
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Examples of consortium in a Sentence
A Japanese consortium invested millions in the technology.
a consortium for the prevention of animal cruelty
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Other networks continue to use the National Election Pool — a consortium of ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News — and Edison Research, which conducts exit polls on Election Day and at early voting locations, as well as surveys of voters by mail.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
The consortium of private investors also includes Hong Kong businesswoman Adrienne Marie Ma, the former president of Joyce Boutique Group Ltd.
—Sofia Celeste, WWD, 29 Oct. 2024
In the past few years, a secretive consortium of technologists and investors has spent almost a billion dollars to purchase about ninety square miles of farmland on the eastern reaches of San Francisco Bay.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
About a month ago, a consortium of investors including Microsoft and BlackRock pledged to mobilize as much as $100 billion to build data centers in the U.S. and partner countries.
—Grace Shao, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
The consortium of private investors also includes Hong Kong businesswoman Adrienne Marie Ma, the former president of Joyce Boutique Group Ltd.
—Sofia Celeste, WWD, 29 Oct. 2024
In the past few years, a secretive consortium of technologists and investors has spent almost a billion dollars to purchase about ninety square miles of farmland on the eastern reaches of San Francisco Bay.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
About a month ago, a consortium of investors including Microsoft and BlackRock pledged to mobilize as much as $100 billion to build data centers in the U.S. and partner countries.
—Grace Shao, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024
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consortium
noun
con·sor·tium
kən-ˈsȯr-shəm; -shē-əm
plural consortia
-shə, -shē-ə
also consortiums
also consortiums
1
: an agreement, combination, or group (as of companies) formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member
2
[Medieval Latin, marital partnership, from Latin]
: the right of one spouse to the company, affection, and assistance of and to sexual relations with the other
also
: the right of a parent or child to the company, affection, and assistance of the other
suing for loss of consortium
compare society
Etymology
Latin, sharing, partnership, from consort-, consors sharer, partner
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