consolidated
[kuh n-sol-i-dey-tid]
- brought together into a single whole.
- having become solid, firm, or coherent.
- 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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Origin of consolidated
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Examples from the Web for unconsolidated
Contemporary Examples
The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.
Ester Elchies, The Estate Built By WhiskeyDecember 10, 2014
Historical Examples
The largest supplies of water are in the unconsolidated sediments.
The Economic Aspect of GeologyC. K. Leith
The American railroad in its unconsolidated stage is a modern feudalism.
The GraftersFrancis Lynde
Sand-dunes in deserts or on coasts are unconsolidated arenaceous rock-masses.
Unfortunately, because of a cave-in of the unconsolidated earth of last years fill, a photograph was impossible.
The Topanga Culture Final Report on Excavations, 1948A. E. Treganza
Much less than a commercially valuable placer deposit in unconsolidated surface rocks may start a search for the mother lode.
The Economic Aspect of GeologyC. K. Leith
Word Origin and History for unconsolidated
consolidated
adj.
past participle adjective from consolidate. Of money, debt, etc., from 1753; in literal sense of "made firm, unified," from c.1850.
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