'Merger' definitions:
Definition of 'merger'
(from WordNet)
noun
The combination of two or more commercial companies [syn: amalgamation, merger, uniting]
noun
An occurrence that involves the production of a union [syn: fusion, merger, unification]
Definition of 'Merger'
From: GCIDE
- Merger \Mer"ger\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, merges. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [PJC]
- 4. 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. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'merger'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addition,
- admixture,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- alloyage,
- amalgamation,
- Anschluss,
- articulation,
- assimilation,
- association,
- blend,
- blending,
- bond,
- bracketing,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- clustering,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- colleagueship,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- comminglement,
- commingling,
- commixture,
- communication,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- concatenation,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confluence,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- convergence,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- copulation,
- coupling,
- eclecticism,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- encompassment,
- enosis,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- freemasonry,
- fusing,
- fusion,
- gathering,
- hookup,
- identification,
- immixture,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interfusion,
- interlarding,
- interlardment,
- interlinking,
- interminglement,
- intermingling,
- intermixture,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- junta,
- knotting,
- league,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- marriage,
- meeting,
- meld,
- melding,
- mergence,
- merging,
- mingling,
- mixing,
- mixture,
- package,
- package deal,
- pairing,
- partnership,
- pluralism,
- pooling,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- splice,
- symbiosis,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- unification,
- union,
- wedding,
- yoking