merger
NOUN · English
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The corpus records 4 senses of merger. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. From a source of medium confidence.
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- The company has had some success with its EV offerings, such as the Nissan Leaf, an asset it brought to the table in merger discussions. EV development costs have created a powerful incentive for carmakers to explore mergers as a way to share the financial burden, according to analysts. 2025 February 13, Juliana Liu and Junko Ogura, “Carmakers Nissan and Honda call off merger talks”, in CNN:
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Definition: 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. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one. From a source of medium confidence.
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- the cot-caught merger Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- If the presence of *θ in Sardinian words of Punic origin is indeed taken as evidence for an affricated realization of Semitic *z, this implies that the variety of Punic, that was the source of the Sardinian punicisms, did not exhibit the merger of Semitic *s, *z, *ṣ, *ś into /s/. 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 394:
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Etymology: From Anglo-Norman merger (verb used as noun). From a source of medium confidence.
No related word is recorded for this word.