The two companies consolidated last year. 这两个公司去年合并了。
The two companies consolidated for greater efficiency. 这两家公司已合并以提高效率.
consolidated
[ adj ]
joined together into a whole
<adj.all> United Industries the amalgamated colleges constituted a university a consolidated school
forming a solid mass
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Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consolidated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consolidating}.] 1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
He fixed and consolidated the earth. --T. Burnet.
2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.
Consolidating numbers into unity. --Wordsworth.
3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]
Syn: To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress.
Consolidated \Con*sol"i*da`ted\, p. p. & a. 1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated. --Rees.
A mass of partially consolidated mud. --Tyndall.
2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. --Gray.
{The Consolidated Fund}, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc.
Kondo said the two foreign ministers' talks on the territorial issue were "frank, serious and heated." Moscow has consolidated its occupation of the Kurils, which guard Moscow's access to the Pacific, with 10,000 troops.
Manufacturing of products such as blenders and hair clippers will be consolidated at other Oster facilities in Tennessee.
His 100%-owned Fininvest S.p.A. has consolidated annual sales of close to $10 billion, and reported a profit of $152 million in 1988.
The group closed a number of production plants in Europe, and also consolidated part of its French interests on one site at Romainville in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The proposed sale comes at a time when the personal-care industry is being increasingly consolidated into the hands of such multinational packaged-goods marketers as Procter & Gamble Co., Unilever and L'Oreal.
In the past year, the Japanese have consolidated their position in the Eurobond markets and now occupy three of the top four positions.
Because Ferranti subsequently consolidated those inflated figures in its own financial statements, he said, "We are going to end up with a hole in our net worth" as great as #150 million ($235.6 million) to #200 million.
Official financing has played a central role in the debt strategy through the Paris Club ($73 billion of principal and interest have been consolidated since 1983) and the flexible policies of export credit agencies.
But a further setback for monetary union would see those gains consolidated.
Partly by receiving management fees, lease payments and other income from its subsidiaries, the parent company alone was marginally profitable in 1987, even as it reported a record loss on a consolidated basis.
But if the freedom fighters are extinguished and communist rule is consolidated in Nicaragua, the American people will be the ones to decide who is responsible," he contended.
Generale des Eaux said consolidated, or group, profit after payments to minority interests rose 21% in the first half, to 575 million francs ($94.1 million) from 476 million francs a year earlier.
Mr. Cooper said if TSI had been in existence for the year ended Sept. 30, it would have had a consolidated turnover in excess of one billion rand ($483 million) and profit after tax of about 64 million rand ($31 million).
Nationwide, consolidated volume in NYSE-listed issues, including trading at regional exchanges and on the over-the-counter market, totaled 167.795 million shares.
Before his death in April, Dorrance began to see the writing on the wall: that the food industry was moving to consolidated, state-of-the-art operations, Roffman said.
Kemper Securities, meanwhile, has lost several brokerage executives since its five struggling brokerage firms were consolidated into one last year.
The charges being consolidated are new, and most were filed in 1987, said Gerald Kobell, regional NLRB director in Pittsburgh.
In consolidated New York Stock Exchange trading, Caesars World rose $4.25 to $29.50 a share.
The 1991 consolidated pretax profit after extraordinary items was 1.26 billion kronor, down 50% from 2.52 billion kronor a year earlier, it said.
Montedison, which also has interests in the energy, financial-services and retail areas, boosted its 1986 consolidated net income nearly threefold, to $247 million.
They are to be the first freely contested national elections since the Communists consolidated power in 1948.
In 1990 Fiat reported a 51% drop in consolidated profit to 1.61 trillion lire ($1.3 million) from 3.31 trillion lire in 1989.
The electronics and defense equipment concern said first-quarter consolidated revenue fell 7.4% to 7.56 billion francs ($1.29 billion).
Nationwide, consolidated volume in NYSE-listed issues, including trades in those stocks on regional exchanges and in the over-the-counter market, totaled 222.89 million shares.
AFG Industries Inc. shareholders said they have filed a consolidated suit against AFG, Clarity Industries Corp., Randall D. Hubbard and others who weren't identified.
ENI, the Italian state-owned energy and chemicals group, made consolidated net profits of L2,072bn (Dollars 1.61bn) for 1990 compared with L1,613bn in 1989.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah consolidated its grip on more than 90 percent of south Beirut.
In consolidated New York Stock Exchange trading Friday, Data General shares closed at $6, up 25 cents.
Financiere Credit Suisse First Boston said consolidated net fell 19% last year, reversing seven years of record profits at the Eurobond house.
The others probaby will be consolidated there, said Giebelstein.