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merger

/ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/

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What does merger mean?

noun

  1. One that merges.
  2. The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
  3. The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. 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.
  2. A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/

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It was the first merger in telephone history.
Herbert Newton CassonThe History of the TelephoneProject Gutenberg ebook #819
It was obviously a characteristically shrewd move on the part of Mr. Gould to secure an interest in the quadruplex, as a factor in his campaign against the Western Union, and as a decisive step toward his control of that system, by the subsequent merger that included not only the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, but the American Union Telegraph Company.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820