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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.
企業聯盟
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，原文照列，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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。