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merger
[ mur-jer ]
noun
- a statutory combination of two or more corporations by the transfer of the properties to one surviving corporation.
- any combination of two or more business enterprises into a single enterprise.
- an act or instance of merging:
Astronomers say that the merger of galaxies can take a billion years.
- Phonetics. the process or phenomenon whereby two distinct speech sounds come to be pronounced identically: for instance, the dz–cܲ vowel merger has taken place in some dialects of English.
merger
/ ˈɜːə /
noun
- commerce the combination of two or more companies, either by the creation of a new organization or by absorption by one of the others Often called (Brit)amalgamation
- law the extinguishment of an estate, interest, contract, right, offence, etc, by its absorption into a greater one
- the act of merging or the state of being merged
merger
- The union of two or more independent corporations under a single ownership. Also known as takeovers, mergers may be friendly or hostile. In the latter case, the buying company, having met with resistance from directors of the targeted company, usually offers an inflated (overmarket) price to persuade stockholders of the targeted company to sell their shares to it. Such mergers often have been financed by junk bonds .
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Other Word Forms
- ·پ··İ adjective
- ·· noun
- ·· adjective
- ·· adjective
Example Sentences
The surest sign of the merger of QAnon and the larger GOP is the right's obsession with the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Board members are cognizant that a huge settlement could be viewed as something of a payoff to the president to move the Skydance merger over the finish line, knowledgeable sources have said.
Paramount Global is looking to get government approval for a merger deal with David Ellison’s Skydance Media.
His farewell note to staff cited interference from the corporate owner, Paramount Global, which is seeking regulatory clearance from the Trump administration to complete an $8-billion merger with Skydance Media.
Supermarket empires came away from the pandemic years with record profits, but the disastrous Kroger merger attempt does portend some chop in the water.
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