noun

• A combination of two things, especially companies, into one.

  ‘a merger between two supermarket chains’

  More example sentences

  • ‘local companies ripe for merger or acquisition’
  • ‘It seems that evolutionary growth was limited and the industry saw mergers and acquisitions as the answer.’
  • ‘During the 1980s mergers and acquisitions were primarily aimed at buying hard assets.’
  • ‘You will also need to appoint a lawyer with experience of mergers and acquisitions work.’
  • ‘Legacy issues and integration problems following mergers and acquisitions.’
  • ‘Book value can increase as a result of mergers, and it can go up if a company has just sold a lot of new equity.’
  • ‘Others feel betrayed as mergers are seen to undermine disciplinary integrity.’
  • ‘Other mergers seek to make cost-savings by integrating operations, sometimes on a world scale.’
  • ‘The new merger law provides the basis for voluntary or compulsory mergers and acquisitions.’
  • ‘What is at first glance surprising is that so few mergers and acquisitions of banks have fallen into the antitrust net.’
  • ‘The travel slump hit earnings across the tourism industry, prompting a number of mergers and profit warnings.’
  • ‘Brokerages rely on huge investment banking fees from stock and bond offerings and mergers.’
  • ‘Once mergers of that scale have already occurred, then the whole industry is pretty much consolidated out.’
  • ‘Over the last few years, there have been several high profile mergers within the industry.’
  • ‘The deal's size and the poor history of tech mergers made it a long shot from the start.’
  • ‘But it is the story of a culture clash, and a textbook example for why mergers so often go so horribly wrong.’
  • ‘One important factor here was the development of large-scale business through mergers.’
  • ‘Because cooperation was legal, there was less pressure for industry-wide mergers.’
  • ‘He sees the job of a mergers regulator as setting down clear standards for companies to follow.’
  • ‘Many big mergers are paid for with shares, and big changes in those can derail deals before they complete.’
  • ‘However, neither of these approaches provided a clear path to the control of mergers.’

  Synonyms

  amalgamation, combination, merging, union, fusion, coalition, affiliation, coupling, unification, incorporation, coalescence, consolidation, confederation, hook-up, link-up

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