Converse of object

• base: Dean Foods is an enormous dairy conglomerate based in the USA with apparently no great historical commitment to organic farming.

• create: Evaluates how credible the government's ambition is to create world-class state-owned conglomerates.

• form: In 1995, Ciba merged with another Swiss firm, Sandoz, to form the conglomerate Novartis.

Converse of subject

• own: It is also a form of media that is not necessarily owned by conglomerates and can have a participatory process for management and production.

Adjective modifier

• multi-national: The larger companies are mostly part of multi-national conglomerates.

• multinational: Whether the seminar is put on by a small accountancy firm or a multinational conglomerate, the principles are the same.

• diversified: Sammons is a diversified conglomerate, ranking among the largest privately held companies in the world.

• basal: The daily production of oil from the basal conglomerate was about 600 barrels.

• coarse: Unique occurrence of coarse conglomerates in outcrop of Skea Sandstone Member.

• giant: Some high school kids turn to a more healthy, natural foods diet to " stick it " to giant food conglomerates.

Modifies a noun

• merger: Draft notices on vertical and conglomerate mergers will be published during 2003.

• rock: Once on the beach we admired the sculptured stacks carved out of conglomerate rock.

• bed: Q2 Look at the pebbles in the lowest conglomerate bed.

Noun used with modifier

• media: It is the huge media conglomerates that are able to continually produce such media in return for extreme profits.

• medium: The already large media conglomerates were allowed to grow larger still.

• luxury: Our turnover makes [ luxury brand conglomerate ] LVMH's look like it's a corner shop.

• entertainment: FRAMES has participation from the Indian, as well as the global entertainment conglomerates.

• engineering: Spent most of career at a major engineering conglomerate.

• oil: When I write about ' pro-American ' I am writing about the Bush administration and the huge energy and oil conglomerates that back it.

Preposition: of

• company: The business itself is a conglomerate of companies providing services as wide ranging as call centers, publishing delivery and catering.