merger

Plural: mergers

Noun

• The combination of two or more entities into a single one.
• the combination of two or more commercial companies
• an occurrence that involves the production of a union
• One that merges.
• The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
• The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
• An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
• A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.

Examples

• Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
• His play created a MERGER of two existing words, scoring bonus points.
• the cot-caught merger

Synonyms

amalgamation, fusion, unification, uniting, combination, phonemic merger

Antonyms

division

Related Words

alliance, buyout, mergence, rollup, sellout, takeover