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Definition of Consolidative
1. Adjective. Combining into a single unit.
2. Adjective. Tending to consolidate.
Similar to: Centralising, Centralizing
Derivative terms: Consolidate, Consolidate, Integrate
Definition of Consolidative
1. a. Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.
Definition of Consolidative
1. Adjective. Tending or having power to consolidate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consolidative
Literary usage of Consolidative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Responding to Low-Intensity Conflict Challenges by Stephen Blank (1993)
"But for the Africans who are presently in their consolidative phase of political
... In this consolidative phase, we should expect a lot of conflicts to ..."
2. Special Operations Forces: Roles And Missions In The Aftermath Of The Cold War by Wayne A. (FRW) Downing (1996)
"consolidative conflicts erupted after independence, during a lengthy ...
The largest number of wars in the post-Cold War period are consolidative wars. ..."
3. Challenge and Response: Anticipating U. S. Military Security Concern by Karl P. Magyar (1994)
"Most of the conflicts in the world, however, are civil wars, which typically
occur, in the early consolidative period of a nation's evolution. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... the uniting of many acts of parliament upon the same subject into one ; the
combining and uniting of two benefices in one. consolidative ..."
5. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard (1910)
"One thing we know : that municipal politics, at once democratic and consolidative,
directed the voters in a republican sense, and outweighed departmental, ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... as of the parts of an empire or a political system.
consolidative (koii-sol'idâ-tiv), a. [< consolidate + -ice.] Tending to consolidate ;
specifically, ..."
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