meaning of consolidation
1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
2. To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
3. The combination of several actions into one.
4. the act of combining into an integral whole; "a consolidation of two corporations"; "after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously"; "the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against
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