Dictionary Definition
consolidate
Verb
1 unite into one; "The companies
consolidated"
2 make firm or secure; strengthen; "consolidate
one's gains"; "consolidate one's hold on first place"
3 bring together into a single whole or system;
"The town and county schools are being consolidated"
4 form into a solid mass or whole; "The mud had
consolidated overnight"
5 make or form into a solid or hardened mass;
"consolidate fibers into boards"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
- From Latin consolidare, from solidus 'solid'.
Pronunciation
- a UK /kənˈsɒlɪdeɪt/
Verb
Related terms
Translations
To combine into a single unit; to group together
or join
- Finnish: yhdistää
- German: vereinigen, zusammenlegen, zusammenführen
- Japanese: 統合する
To make stronger or more solid
- Finnish: vahvistaa, lujittaa
- French: consolider
- German: festigen, konsolidieren
* ttbc Spanish: consolidar
Italian
Verb
consolidate- Form of Second-person plural imperative, consolidare#Italian|consolidare
Extensive Definition
Consolidation may refer to the following:
- Consolidation (business), the mergers or acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones
- Consolidation (soil), a geological process whereby a soil decreases in volume
- Consolidation (media), consolidation in the United States media into a few companies
- Consolidation (medicine), a clinical term for solidification into a firm dense mass
- Championship consolidation, the act of combining two separate championships into a single title
- Data consolidation, the consolidation of data from multiple sources into a centralized system
- Democratic consolidation, the process by which a new democracy matures
- Memory consolidation, the process by which recent memories are crystallised into long-term memory
- School consolidation, the process of combining two or more small schools into one larger institution
- Federal student loan consolidation, allows students to consolidate student loans into one single debt
- Consolidation, a popular name of a steam locomotive type, with 2-8-0 wheel, built first in 1864. The name came from consolidation of two rail companies
See also
- Consolidated city-county, a consolidation of city and county governments used by some United States cities
- Travel consolidators, a consolidation of travel services in one package or at one single point of access
- Likud, an Israeli conservative revisionist Zionist political party whose name is Hebrew for "Consolidation"
consolidate in German: Konsolidierung
consolidate in French: Consolidation
consolidate in Russian: Консолидация
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abbreviate, accelerate, act in concert,
act together, add, affiliate, aggravate, ally, amalgamate, assimilate, associate, band, band together, be in league,
beef up, blend, blow up,
circumscribe, club
together, coact, coalesce, coarct, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, compact, complicate, compound, compress, comprise, concentrate, concert, concord, concur, condense, confederate, congest, connect, conspire, constrict, constringe, contract, cooperate, cram, cramp, crowd, curtail, decrease, deepen, densen, densify, do business with,
double, draw, draw in, draw together,
embody, encompass, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, federate, flux, fuse, get heads together, get
together, go partners, hang together, harmonize, heat up, heighten, hold together, hook
up, hop up, hot up, include, incorporate, integrate, intensify, interblend, interfuse, jam, jazz up, join, join in, join together, keep
together, key up, knit,
league, league together,
lump together, magnify,
make common cause, make complex, make one, meld, melt into one, merge, mix, narrow, partner, play ball, press, pucker, pucker up, pull together,
purse, put heads together,
put together, ram down, ramify, reciprocate, redouble, reduce, reembody, reinforce, roll into one,
set, shade into, sharpen, shorten, solidify, soup up, squeeze, stand together, step
up, strangle, strangulate, strengthen, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, team up, throw in
together, tie in, tie up, triple, unify, unite, unite efforts, whet, work together, wrinkle