merger
nounEtymology From Anglo-Norman merger (verb used as noun).
1
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
- Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
2
Economics, Sciences The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
- The company has had some success with its EV offerings, such as the Nissan Leaf, an asset it brought to the table in merger discussions. EV development costs have created a powerful incentive for carmakers to explore mergers as a way to share the financial burden, according to analysts.2025 February 13, Juliana Liu and Junko Ogura, “Carmakers Nissan and Honda call off merger talks”, in CNN:
3
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.
4
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonology, Sciences A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
- the cot-caught merger
- If the presence of *θ in Sardinian words of Punic origin is indeed taken as evidence for an affricated realization of Semitic *z, this implies that the variety of Punic, that was the source of the Sardinian punicisms, did not exhibit the merger of Semitic *s, *z, *ṣ, *ś into /s/.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 394:
- Synonyms
- combination, fusion, phonemic merger
- Antonyms
- division
- Derived terms
25 terms
antimerger, cot-caught merger, cure-fir merger, cure-nurse merger, demerger, father-bother merger, horse-hoarse merger, hurry-furry merger, line-loin merger, low back merger, Mary-marry-merry merger, meet-meat merger, megamerger, mergerless, mirror-nearer merger, multimerger, nonmerger, nurse merger, phonemic merger, pin-pen merger, postmerger, premerger, reverse merger, weak vowel merger, wine-whine merger