Combine (enterprise)

Combine (enterprise)
One of the 17,000 workers at the Kombinat Robotron in the German Democratic Republic in 1987 working to produce typewriters

Combine (Russian: Комбинат) has several related meanings:

  • A big industrial enterprise that combines several different enterprises that are related to each other by a technological process or through an administration.
  • A combination of educational-developmental institutions of different levels such as an institute and a tekhnikum, day care and kindergarten (Child combine).
  • Combination of various enterprises as one of the forms of monopoly.

It is a term for industrial business groups[1] or conglomerates in the socialist countries and particularly the former Soviet Union. Examples include VEB Kombinat Robotron, an electronics manufacturer, and IFA, a manufacturer of vehicles, both in East Germany, and the Erdenet copper combine in Mongolia.

References

  1. ^ Merriam-Webster.com

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