merger
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) enPR: mûrʹjər, IPA(key): /ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: merg‧er
Etymology 1
From merge + -er.
Noun
merger (plural mergers)
- One that merges.
Etymology 2
Anglo-Norman merger (verb used as noun)
Noun
merger (plural mergers)
- The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
- Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
- (economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
- (law) 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.
- (phonology) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
- the cot-caught merger
Synonyms
- combination
- fusion
- (linguistics): phonemic merger
Antonyms
- division
Derived terms
- antimerger
- cot-caught merger
- demerger
- father-bother merger
- horse-hoarse merger
- line-loin merger
- low back merger
- Mary-marry-merry merger
- megamerger
- mergerless
- multimerger
- nonmerger
- phonemic merger
- pin-pen merger
- postmerger
- premerger
- wine-whine merger
Related terms
- mergence
Translations
the act or process of merging
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an absorption into one estate, contract etc.
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type of sound change merging two or more sounds — see phonemic merger
the legal union of two or more corporations
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See also
- alliance
- buyout
- sellout
- takeover
References
- merger at OneLook Dictionary Search
- merger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911