Definition of Horizontal combination

1. Noun. Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level.

Exact synonyms: Horizontal Integration
Generic synonyms: Consolidation, Integration

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horizontal Combination

horis
horison
horizonal
horizonless
horizons
horizontal
horizontal atrophy
horizontal bar
horizontal bars
horizontal beam film
horizontal cell
horizontal cell of Cajal
horizontal cells of retina
horizontal combination (current term)
horizontal fissure of cerebellum
horizontal fissure of right lung
horizontal fracture
horizontal gene transfer
horizontal growth phase
horizontal integration
horizontal market
horizontal osteotomy
horizontal overlap
horizontal parallax

Literary usage of Horizontal combination

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

1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"the endeavor to form and strengthen this all-embracing horizontal combination. The Steel Corporation owns many iron furnaces, many steel mills, ..."

2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1911)
"the endeavor to form and strengthen this all-embracing horizontal combination. The Steel Corporation owns many iron furnaces, many steel mills, ..."

3. Economics: An Introduction for the General Reader by Henry Clay (1918)
"It is due to the same pressure of competition on profits as leads to horizontal combination; it seeks to escape from the pressure, however, not by combining ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"... but are still large enough to show that the faces of the vertical prism do not form horizontal combination-edges with them, and consequently that this ..."

5. Business Ownership Organization by Archibald Herbert Stockder (1922)
"The former is usually known as horizontal combination and the latter as vertical combination or integration. ..."

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