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 partners in a marriage 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
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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."