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say it: kuhn-sah-luh-DAY-shuhn
consolidation is a noun meaning "combining into a solid mass". It carries 3 recorded senses.
combining into a solid mass
the act of combining into an integral whole
“a consolidation of two corporations”
“after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously”
“the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them”
something that has consolidated into a compact mass
“he dropped the consolidation into the acid bath”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for consolidation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.