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merger Noun

— A merger is the process of two or more parts into a single unit. Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half

merger

— noun (= amalgamation) the combination of two or more commercial companies — noun (= fusion) an occurrence that involves the production of a union

Synonyms merger synonyms

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merger English » English

consolidation amalgamation combination fusion annexation union integration mergence absorption uniting unification mixing merging confusion coalition united front takeover syncretism swallowing up regrouping pool multinational company mixture mix up merging star merge into merge melding mainstreaming joining into one joining incorporation incorporate in cyberinfrastructure cartel blend attachment appending amalgamating agglomeration affiliation addition

Topics merger topics

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Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach

What words refer to something made by joining things together?

union unity assembly assemblage bundle ensemble merger trinity triumvirate partnership compound couple coupling conglomerate combination construct (n)

Physical actions Arrange

Mix

What words refer to things mixing together?

amalgamate blend combine commingle fuse intermix meld merge merger unite

Examples merger examples

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Simple sentences

The gravitational waves were generated by the merger of two black holes.

Movie subtitles

If the merger does not go through, we are in very bad shape, Papa.

I will make this merger go through.

Please, we are here to discuss the merger.

Now, to go ahead with the merger.

You realize. that this merger is a great advantage to the Saxonians, of course.

Well, gentlemen, since June 11 of this year. when the first negotiations for a merger were entered.

Let me say again, for the tenth time. you people were quite ready for the merger.

I'll admit that we were at one time anxious for this merger.

You have decided against the merger?

This merger's going to make history!

Pearce and I are prepared to consider a merger.

The plastics merger?

I don't care if he runs off with the gardener's grandmother! I just don't want him to run off with the plastics merger.

Unable to attend Larrabee Sulphur board meeting because of slight hitch Larrabee Plastics merger.

Dickson doesn't have to go, but he must agree to this merger with the New York Trust.

There'll be no merger.

I heard the merger isn't going through.

Or should I call it a merger?

I don't care who he runs off with so long as it's not the plastics merger.

Marriage. A merger.

I'm calling off the merger.

We are here to put our signatures to the Larrabee-Tyson merger.

Understand, I don't mean to say that our merger has hit a snag, or failed to gel, or gone up in smoke, or fallen through.

News and current affairs

Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.

Nordea tried to get the deposit guarantee rules changed to create a level playing field in which a cross-border merger would not distort competition between banks.

By law in the US, new approaches superseding established bankruptcy procedures dictate the demise rather than the rescue of failing firms, whether by sale, merger, or liquidation.

Proponents of the merger believe it will improve the efficiency of the Russian aircraft industry and, by lowering costs, make Russian planes more attractive to foreign buyers.

Although direct legal obstacles have been eliminated in Europe, indirect obstacles such as taxation - which can make a merger unprofitable - persist.

The Dodd-Frank Act did succeed in putting the OTS out of its misery, but jealous congressional oversight committees have prevented a merger of the SEC and CFTC, and nothing has been done to rationalize banking supervision.

That spat not only prevented a merger, apparently welcomed by the market, with the Dutch firm KPN, it put the Spanish Security and Exchange Commission (CNMV) in a difficult spot as broker between government and a powerful company boss.

Their peculiar merger has been evident in many recent US wars in the Middle East and Africa.

There is a need to set a limit on the amount of debt that a company can accumulate, and change acquisition and merger legislation to include leverage.

Soon, we will see the spectrum become even more active, with the merger of cell phone infrastructure and the relatively unregulated Internet.

The only way that a Chinese merger with the TPP could gain credibility would be to make all non-trade-related provisions optional.

Afterwards, the Commission will draft new merger control rules to replace the current ones which date back to 1990.

The new merger control rules go some way toward fixing a number of quirks in the Commission's current procedure for evaluating mergers.

Why impose restrictions on a dealmaker who earns a large fee for arranging a merger that imposes no risk on the bank after the transaction has closed?

In mid-August, I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost, and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger.

Their peculiar merger has been evident in many recent US wars in the Middle East and Africa. Unfortunately, the results have been consistently devastating.

The problem is that the principle of free and fair competition that characterizes the developed world is subversive of the Russian state that Putin has built - a state based on the merger of government and business.

Nationalist squabbles over the details of the merger would surely have been attenuated by a statesmanlike intervention from the Commission in Brussels.

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