commingle

English

Alternative forms

• co-mingle
• comingle

Etymology

From com- +‎ mingle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Verb

commingle (third-person singular simple present commingles, present participle commingling, simple past and past participle commingled)

1. (transitive) To mix, to blend.
   • 2006 August 18, Gretchen Morgenson, “Adviser Jailed Since 2000 Pleads Guilty in Securities Fraud Case”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     […] Mr. Armstrong, founder of Princeton Economics International, admitted to deceiving corporate investors and improperly commingling client funds in a case that prosecutors said resulted in commodities losses of more than $700 million.

   • 2024 June 4, Emily Weinstein, “Linguine With Zucchini, Corn and Shrimp is Superbly Summery”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     This vibrant stir-fry from Christian Reynoso is Chifa cooking — the cuisine that commingles Chinese and Peruvian elements — and it’s utterly delicious.

   • 2025, Sonia Sotomayor (writing for a unanimous Supreme Court of the United States), Opinion of the Court in Republic of Hungary et al. v. Simon et al., № 23—867, 2025-02-21

     To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property.

2. (intransitive) To become mixed or blended.
   • 1974 February 7, “Grenada's ‘Destined’ Leader”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     In the midst of a general strike and a power blackout Eric M. Gairy talked freely about what he saw as the commingled destiny of himself and the tiny emerging independent nation of Grenada.

   • 2023 February 2, Natalia Winkelman, “‘Baby Ruby’ Review: Enfant Terrible”, in The New York Times‎^[4]:

     It was once considered taboo to even suggest that new motherhood was not all sunshine onesies and rainbow mobiles, and “Baby Ruby” arrives on a welcome wave of contemporary movies exploring how the joys of child rearing can commingle with misery.

Usage notes

Particularly used in financial law to refer to mixing funds – see commingling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

• comminglement
• commingler
• comminglingly
• uncommingled

Translations

mix, blend

• Arabic: خَلَط (ar) (ḵalaṭ)
• Bulgarian: смесвам (bg) (smesvam)
• German: mischen (de), zusammenfügen (de), vermischen (de), mixen (de), vermengen (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blande (no)

• Occitan: mesclar (oc), entremesclar, abarrejar (oc)
• Swedish: sammanblanda (sv), blanda (sv)

become mixed or blended

• Swedish: sammanblandas, blandas (sv)