merger

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mûrʹjər, IPA^(key): /ˈmɝdʒɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːdʒə/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: merg‧er

Etymology 1

From merge +‎ -er.

Noun

merger (plural mergers)

1. One that merges.

Etymology 2

Old French merger (“verb used as noun”)

Noun

merger (plural mergers)

1. The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.

   Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half

2. (economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
3. (law) 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.
4. (phonology) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.

   the cot-caught merger

Synonyms

• combination
• fusion
• (linguistics): phonemic merger

Antonyms

• division

Derived terms

• antimerger
• cot-caught merger
• demerger
• father-bother merger
• horse-hoarse merger
• line-loin merger
• low back merger
• Mary-marry-merry merger
• megamerger
• mergerless
• multimerger
• nonmerger
• phonemic merger
• pin-pen merger
• postmerger
• premerger
• wine-whine merger

 

Related terms

• mergence

Translations

the act or process of merging

• Dutch: samensmelting f, versmelting, fusie (nl) f
• Finnish: yhdistyminen (fi), yhteensulautuminen, sulautuminen (fi), sulauttaminen
• Georgian: შერწყმა (šerc̣q̇ma), გაერთიანება (gaertianeba)
• German: Verschmelzung (de) f, Fusion (de) f, Zusammenfügung f
• Hindi: विलय (hi) m (vilay)
• Italian: fusione (it) f, unione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 合併 (ja) (がっぺい, gappei), 統合 (ja) (とうごう, tōgō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sammenslåing (no) m or f

• Portuguese: fusão (pt) f
• Russian: слия́ние (ru) n (slijánije), поглоще́ние (ru) n (pogloščénije) (takeover, absorption)
• Spanish: fusión (es) f, unión (es) f
• Swedish: sammanslagning (sv)

an absorption into one estate, contract etc.

• Dutch: opslorping, amalgamatie f
• Finnish: sulautuminen (fi), sulautuma (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Georgian: შთანთქმა (štantkma), შერწყმა (šerc̣q̇ma)
• Russian: слия́ние (ru) n (slijánije), поглоще́ние (ru) n (pogloščénije) (takeover, absorption)

type of sound change merging two or more sounds — see phonemic merger

the legal union of two or more corporations

• Armenian: միաձուլում (hy) (miajulum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合併／合并 (zh) (hébìng), 合并 (zh) (hébìng)

• Dutch: fusie (nl) f
• Finnish: fuusio (fi), yritysfuusio (fi), sulautuminen (fi)
• French: fusion (fr) f
• Georgian: შერწყმა (šerc̣q̇ma), შეერთება (šeerteba), გაერთიანება (gaertianeba)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Fusion (de) f, Firmenzusammenschluss m, Zusammenschluss (de) m
• Hindi: विलय (hi) m (vilay)
• Japanese: 合併 (ja) (がっぺい, gappei), 統合 (ja) (とうごう, tōgō)
• Portuguese: fusão (pt) f
• Russian: слия́ние (ru) n (slijánije), поглоще́ние (ru) n (pogloščénije) (takeover, absorption), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)
• Spanish: fusión (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Zusammenschluss (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Fusion (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} fusion, ^{(please verify)} fusionamento
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} fusio f

See also

• alliance
• buyout
• sellout
• takeover

References

• “merger”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “merger”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.