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merger
/ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/
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What does merger mean?
noun
- One that merges.
- The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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.