0 the process of becoming or being made stronger and more certain: --
1 the process in which businesses join together to make a single organization: --
credit counseling firms that promise relief through the magic of debt consolidation
There is no objection in principle to the consolidation of bank accounts in order to obtain better terms of business from the bank.
Many employees have been impacted by mergers and consolidations.
We have seen a similar consolidation of booksellers and distributors.
2 the situation in which two or more things, for example companies or organizations, are joined together: --
The company can offer various options for the consolidation of your outstanding debts.
consolidation of sth and sth (into sth) the consolidation of the repair and service operations into one department
We have recently seen a consolidation of booksellers and distributors.
The takeovers came amid a wave of consolidation as the so-called Big Oil companies gobbled up competitors.
Greater market share can be achieved in the long term through industry consolidation.
3 the process of becoming or of making something stronger or more successful: --
4 the process of combining the accounts of a group of companies in one set of figures: --
5 the process of putting items together in order to send or transport them: --
Most of the work consists of a detailed account of the rise and consolidation of what they call the current empire.
The increased visibility of the ' southern bloc ' has acted in part as a spur to the consolidation of other blocs.
How do we assess in this context the relative merits of consolidation and fragmentation?
But recent studies are promising and support that sleep plays a role (in addition to processes during waking) in memory consolidation.
The ' quickening ' of local governance was exactly that : the consolidation of governance through local and central collusion.
Consolidation of the auto industry, for example, is driving cross-national mergers and alliances among steel producers.
This has the advantage of filtering much of the noise from the engine level and doing sophisticated information consolidation before populating a relational database.
Studies on delayed dream recall and long-term retention of pre-sleep stimuli indicate that sleep may have a positive role in the consolidation of information.
