consolidated

American  

[kuhn-sol-i-dey-tid] / kənˈsɒl ɪˌdeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. brought together into a single whole.

2. having become solid, firm, or coherent.

3. Accounting. taking into account the combined information gathered from the financial conditions of a parent corporation and its subsidiaries.

   a consolidated balance sheet.

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Other Word Forms

• quasi-consolidated adjective
• unconsolidated adjective

Etymology

Origin of consolidated

First recorded in 1745–55; consolidate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Asian currencies consolidated against the dollar in early trade, but may be weighed by geopolitical tensions that typically undermine risk appetite.

From The Wall Street Journal

Asian currencies consolidated against the dollar in early trade but may be weighed by geopolitical risks.

From The Wall Street Journal

As of Sept. 30, the company boasted a consolidated cash balance of $836 million.

From Barron's

Iraq's new parliament elected a senior figure from the Sunni Taqadom party as its speaker Monday, the first session since November elections that consolidated the main parties' grip on power.

From Barron's

That story and all the thematic clones emerging in its wake center contradictory thought as heroic and easily imperiled because it muddies a convenient, consolidated prescription of how the world should work.

From Salon

Related Words

• concerted
• cooperative
• homogeneous
• integrated
• linked
• unanimous
• undivided
• unified