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noun

Merger n.

One who, or that which, merges.

(Law) An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

The combining of two groups into a unified single group under a single leadership, with voluntary participation by the leaders or management of both groups.

Specifically: (Business, Finance) The combining of two commercial enterprises into a unified single enterprise under a single management, with voluntary participation by both parties; as, the merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler into Daimler-Chrysler created a powerful competitor in the automobile manufacturing industry. Compare acquisition and takeover.

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Etymology of 'Merger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Merger" Quotes from Famous Books

... a system of reciprocal re-ordination, a "merger" of church property and parsons, an "irreducible minimum" of credal insistencies these, and others even more ingeniously compromising, are the well-meaning schemes that are put forward, and in the process one point after another ...

— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram

... was one of the first. The street crossing at Broadway and Twenty-third Street was jammed with a string of delivery waggons from the department stores whose growth had crushed a hundred small trades. The clang of the cars proclaimed the Street Railway Merger and a skyscraper called "The Flatiron" was just raising its giant frame on the little triangle where a half-dozen old-fashioned buildings had stood for generations. Across Madison Square the Metropolitan Life Insurance ...

— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... The merger of lines into systems, a facilitated interchange of freight cars, the economic use of terminals, and the consolidation of facilities are suggested ways ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

Words linked to "Merger" : amalgamation, union, integration, merger agreement, fusion, merge, unification