CONSORTIUMS Synonyms

• a formal organization of people or groups of people

• the act of consorting with or joining with others

• the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a social or business relationship

• a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

• (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

• (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• the state of being combined into one body

• the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

• act of working jointly

• act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

• forming a whole or aggregate

• members of a cooperative enterprise

• done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

• set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government

• the state of being allied or confederated

• a union of political organizations

• the act of forming an alliance or confederation

• a composite rock made up of particles of varying size

• a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

• composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass

• increase in amount by collecting or gathering

• joint operation or action

• the practice of cooperating

• a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state

• slang for a paunch

• an organization formed by merging several groups or parties

• a union of political organizations

• the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs

• any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

• arrange into a group or groups

• form a group or group together

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action

• an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)

• unite to form a league

• the members of a business venture created by contract

• a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal

• a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

• a small lake

• an organization of people or resources that can be shared

• an association of companies for some definite purpose

• any communal combination of funds

• a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid

• the combined stakes of the betters

• something resembling a pool of liquid

• any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

• combine into a common fund

• join or form a pool of people

• a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

• an association of companies for some definite purpose

• a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication

• join together into a syndicate

• organize into or form a syndicate

• sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations