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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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horizontal Combination
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. ..."