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Definition of Merger

1. Noun. The combination of two or more commercial companies.

2. Noun. An occurrence that involves the production of a union.

Definition of Merger

1. n. One who, or that which, merges.

Definition of Merger

1. Noun. The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. ¹

2. Noun. (economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) 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.. ¹

4. Noun. (linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Merger

1. the union of two or more businesses into a single enterprise [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merger

meretriciousness merfather merfolk merfolks merganser mergansers merge merge sort merge sorts mergeable

merged mergee mergees mergence mergences merger (current term) merger agreement mergers merges mergesort

mergesorted mergesorting mergesorts merging merging(a) mergings mergirl mergirls merguard merguez

Literary usage of Merger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1919)
"—merger distinguished from consolidation. While the word "merger" is often used as synonymous with "consolidation," both in the decisions, textbooks, ..."

2. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy (1899)
"merger of charges. § 790. I. The owner of the property becomes entitled ... Intention prevents a merger. § 792. Time and mode of expressing the intention. ..."

3. Helping Your Child Get Ready for School: With Activities for Children from by Nancy Paulu (1993)
"A merger can create efficiencies, which may be beneficial to consumers only if they are passed on to them, or create bottlenecks that gouge us all. ..."

4. The Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry: An Update by Rebecca A. McNerney (1998)
"For the short term, this merger did not produce any costs savings. In comparison, the merger of Kansas Power & Light and Kansas Gas & Electric had different ..."

5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"Extinguished by merger. — A term for years may be defeated by way of merger, when it meets another term immediately expectant thereon. ..."

6. Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant by William Woodfall (1890)
"merger. What amounts to a merger of a term. — A lease for years may be determined by merger; that is, when there is a union of the term with the immediate ..."

7. Commentaries on the Law of Contracts: Being a Consideration of the Nature ...by William Frederick Elliott by William Frederick Elliott (1913)
"merger of parol, in written contract. 1984. merger of simple contract in 1985. ... merger of one judgment in another. 1987. merger by modification. 1988. ..."

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