Word Finder - consortium

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An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.

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A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.

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An association or society.

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The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.

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A group of symbiotic microbes.

The UK's proposal to establish an infrastructure consortium was agreed at a meeting on 5 May in London.

This link designates the home page of the World Wide Web Consortium.

The news has come as a welcome fillip to farmers says Rob Wills, Executive Manager of the British Livestock Genetics Consortium.

Swansea is a consortium member of four leading UK - based universities that will provide innovative future optical, wireless and networking technology scenarios.

News Join the Changing Places Consortium in campaigning for fully accessible loos in public places across the UK.

This consortium is working to develop new low-cost electronic devices derived from organic semiconductors.

We test these ideas using large high resolution N-body simulations carried out within the Virgo supercomputing consortium.

Boasting landmark verdicts and distinguished track records, LegalView is backed by a powerful consortium of some of the nation's best firms.

Also wanting to take over from the hugely unpopular Tony Petty is the consortium of local businessmen headed by Mel Nurse.

Does the supplier 's proposal demonstrate how subcontractors and/or consortium members will be organized and managed?

Boasting landmark verdicts and distinguished track records, LegalView is backed by a powerful consortium of some of the nation 's best firms.

Instead, a large consortium of companies are working together to push it along, as well as anyone else who is interested in developing it.

Google Android comes from a consortium of companies who are collectively called the Open Handset Alliance.

As of 2010 it had gone through its fifth revision by the World Wide Web Consortium.

Luckily, the Worldwide Web Consortium has created many tutorials such as "First CSS" that explain how the properties work in various permutations.

Raytheon is a member of the Metrix consortium bidding for the UK MoD's Defense Training Requirement.

A consortium was planned to buy the plant from Whitbread and continue brewing there.

The EUSES consortium is a new NSF consortium of researchers who are working on this problem.

Neville - a lifelong Villa fan - is leading a consortium which he believes can " make Aston Villa great again " .

Caselex is built on a public-private consortium comprising 11 key players (see below for information on the Irish and UK participants ).

In the autumn of 1999, Stoke was purchased by an Icelandic business consortium.

LeGE-WG provides an interdisciplinary consortium of experts in Grid Computing and eLearning, and promotes a close interaction between the communities associated with them.

Sky 1st June 2006 North Korea An international consortium set up to build nuclear power plants for North Korea has abandoned the project.

The DNA sequence of the genome was completed by a multinational consortium in December 2000, the first of any higher plant.

We are working very closely with our professional advisors, as this consortium requires a floating debenture in order to complete the deal.

Actually I can't believe I've got this far without mentioning Greg's recent escapade with his friends from the mysteriously named consortium.

National collaborative work with the UK National Periodontal Diseases Consortium enables genetic studies of aggressive periodontitis.

The keynote presenter for this is James Clay, Director, Western Colleges Consortium.

The Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living brings awareness to the need for person-centered living, stressing the needs of seniors in hospitals, assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

A database of Florida marriage records from county clerks of the court is available from MyFloridaCounty.com, a project of the Florida Local Government Internet Consortium.

In 2008, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Autism Consortium conducted a genome-wide scan that identified a region of genome that is either missing or duplicated in some people with autism.

Because widgets became popular for use on the web in the mid-2000's, the World Wide Web Consortium created the Widget 1.0 standard, which operates the same when they created the HTML 1.0 standard.

Pioneered and championed by expert designers and bloggers such as Jeffrey Zeldman, the demand eventually resulted in the formation of the WorldWideWeb Consortium, or W3C.

Designers and coders began working together, both independently and as groups like the World Wide Web Consortium, to come up with new technologies to expand HTML.