octoprise

(oct o priz)
n. Enterprise in which a corporation runs several lines of business
in products or services which are unrelated to one another.
General Tire owning RKO radio stations for instance. Or, rumor
had it, Greyhound owned many things including Armour Hot Dogs.
Greyhound's bus division recently sold to another group of
investors.
1976

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