Definition of "consolidation" []

• The act or process of consolidating. (noun)
• The state of being consolidated. (noun)
• The merger of two or more commercial interests or corporations. (noun)

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• ""We're using the word consolidation because you create a new entity that does not currently exist.""
• "The result of this consolidation is a more streamlined approach to driving core brands."
• "At one level, this consolidation is a fundamental premise of the quasi-ethnographic gaze which now mediates all of Equiano's observations on the"