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Consortium
Association of two or more individuals and/or organizations to achieve a common goal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the type of voluntary association. For other uses, see Consortium (disambiguation).
A consortium (pl. consortiums or consortia) is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.
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Consortium is a Latin word meaning "partnership", "association", or "society", and derives from consors ("shared in property"), itself from con- ("together") and sors ("fate").