consolidation

IPA: kʌnsɑɫʌdˈeɪʃʌn

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated
The combination of several actions into one.
(medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
(rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, first built in the United States in 1866.

Examples of "consolidation" in Sentences

This kind of consolidation is the next step for the industry.
Disbursement rather than consolidation is good for the market.
Competition, they argued, would result in consolidation and fewer players.
The result of this consolidation is a more streamlined approach to driving core brands.
"We're using the word consolidation because you create a new entity that does not currently exist."
WILLIS: Well, you may need a higher balance in order to qualify for what they call a consolidation loan.
At one level, this consolidation is a fundamental premise of the quasi-ethnographic gaze which now mediates all of Equiano's observations on the
Parker said he would support a potential United-Continental merger because any consolidation is good for an industry that remains too fragmented.
Men like Archbishop Whately, in the middle of the nineteenth century, whose ambition it was to see what they called the consolidation of Great Britain and Ireland effected, were strongly in favour of the proposal, and its rejection on so many occasions has been doubtless due to the fact that to mix and confound the administration of