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 [kuhn-sawr-shee-uhm, -tee-]   Origin

con·sor·ti·um

   [kuhn-sawr-shee-uhm, -tee-]
noun, plural -ti·a  [-shee-uh, -tee-uh] .
1.
a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
2.
any association, partnership, or union.
3.
Law. the legal right of husband and wife to companionship and conjugal intercourse with each other: In a wrongful death action the surviving spouse commonly seeks damages for loss of consortium.
Origin:
1820–30; < Latin: partnership, equivalent to consort- consort + -ium -ium

Related forms
con·sor·ti·al, adjective
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the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one's office or authority
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consortium (kənˈsɔːtɪəm)
 
—n , pl -tia
1.  an association of financiers, companies, etc, esp one formed for a particular purpose
2.  law the right of husband or wife to the company, assistance, and affection of the other
 
[C19: from Latin: community of goods, partnership; see consort]
 
con'sortial
 
—adj

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consortium
1829, from L. consortium, lit. "partnership," from consors (see consort (v.)). Earlier, in British law, a term for "right of husband's access to his wife."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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consortium definition

body
A group of two or more companies, educational institutions, governments or other bodies with some shared purpose.
Examples from computing include the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Apache Software Foundation, The Open Group, X Consortium.
(2009-06-05)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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