consolidated

consolidate | American Dictionary

consolidate
verb[ I/T ]
us/kənˈsɑl·əˌdeɪt/
to bring together or unite things that were separate:
[ I ]Our offices had been spread among three buildings, and then we consolidated into one new high-rise.
To consolidate is also to make stronger by some action or event:
[ T ]The governor consolidated his power, getting his allies into key state jobs.

consolidated

adjective[ not gradable ]us/kənˈsɑl·əˌdeɪ·t̬ɪd/

consolidation

noun[ U ]us/kənˌsɑl·əˈdeɪ·ʃən/

consolidate | Business English

consolidate
verb
uk /kənˈsɒlɪdeɪt/us
[ I or T ]
to become or make something stronger or more successful:
Net assets rose to £758 million, consolidating the company's position as a member of the FTSE 250 index.
The company has been growing too rapidly and it is now time to stop the expansion and consolidate.
[ I or T ]
to join the different parts of something together, or to be joined:
The business plan is based on consolidating a fragmented but growing market.
There is still scope for European industries to consolidate.
consolidate sth into/with sthManufacturing has been consolidated into fewer plants worldwide.
They considered consolidating all their small debts and taking out a new loan to cover them.
[ T ] ACCOUNTING
to show the financial results of a group of companies in one set of figures, rather than showing the results of each company separately:
When a group of companies share some economic value, it may be necessary to consolidate group accounts in order to determine the profit and loss.
[ T ] TRANSPORT
to put items together in order to send or transport them:
Your shipment will be consolidated with those of other customers and transported by container.

Examples of consolidate

consolidate
He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force.
As evidence, each item consolidated and substantiated a prosecution.
The couple then consolidated their new dynamic of reciprocal caregiving and used it to renegotiate old problems in their relationship.
We have consolidated and compared numerous empirical studies on consumer preferences for, and attitude towards, organic food, relative to conventionally grown products.
Between 1992 and 2002 the country was returning to and consolidating civilian rule.
In seven subsequent seasons this market has consolidated and grown.
Differences between the annotators were consolidated so that a consensus was reached.
Scenes like these consolidated a conventional association between laments and the feminine voice.
Newspapers, newsletters and pamphlets [became] a valuable means of consolidating organization, educating the community, and ensuring two-way communication.
In the process of transition to democracy, and especially once democracy has been consolidated, political parties are its most significant actors.
We then conduct a probit analysis to assess the likelihood that a country (currently not consolidating) will commence a consolidation.
In reality, no party consolidated its hold on a contiguous area, and the frontline was very blurred.
The increasing number of units consolidated in memory parallels the decreasing amount of slow wave activity.
After consolidating duplicate entries five distinct gene products with clearly defined olfactomedin homology domains were selected for detailed analysis.
The ideological right, however, increasingly consolidated its democratic electoral victories that it began in the 1980s.
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