- 1企業聯盟
A group of companies, banks, universities, or other organizations that join together to do a large job they probably could not do alone — build a railway, bid on a contract, share the cost of research. It is a business and news word, fairly formal. The members stay separate; they are not merging into one company. You would not call a group of a consortium. In newspapers you often see “a consortium of banks.” The plural is consortiums, or consortia in more formal writing.
From the word’s history
From Latin cōnsortium.
借自拉丁文 cōnsortium。
組成Learned borrowing from Latin consortium. Built from con- (“together”) and sors (“lot, share, fate”): people who share the same lot. In Latin it already meant partnership.
同家族的字
- consortsame Latin consors, “partner / one who shares a lot”
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
consortiumnoun/kənˈsɔː.ti.əm/
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An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
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A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
- We wanted to share that kind thought with you because today, November 13, is "World Kindness Day" — created back in 1998 by a consortium of kindhearted charities.
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An association or society.
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lawThe right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
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biologynatural-sciencesA group of symbiotic microbes.
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