Word of the Day
for Saturday,
May 18, 2013
Consortium \kuhn-SAWR-shee-uhm, -tee-\, noun:
1. any association, partnership, or union.
2. a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
3. Law. the legal right of husband and wife to companionship and conjugal intercourse with each other: In a wrongful death action the surviving spouse commonly seeks damages for loss of consortium.
2. a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
3. Law. the legal right of husband and wife to companionship and conjugal intercourse with each other: In a wrongful death action the surviving spouse commonly seeks damages for loss of consortium.
A consortium
of companies that make radio-based identification tags, scanners and related
software said yesterday that they planned to pool their patents in a venture
that would provide one-stop licensing and royalty management.
-- Barnaby J. Feder, "Consortium to Pool Radio-Tag Patents," New York Times, August 10, 2005
-- Barnaby J. Feder, "Consortium to Pool Radio-Tag Patents," New York Times, August 10, 2005
This new foundation
would assist the consortium
to make policy, and advise the U.N. on Mars-related matters.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars and Green Mars, 1993
-- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars and Green Mars, 1993
Consortium entered English in the 1820s. It comes from the Latin word for
partnership, consort.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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