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merger en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • mûrʹjər (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English merge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English merger From merge + -er.

Meanings

  1. One that merges.

Forms

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merger en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • mûrʹjər (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman merger (verb used as noun).

Meanings

  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. The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
    • 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:
  3. 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. A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
    • 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:
    • the cot-caught merger

Forms

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Antonyms

division

Deriveds

cot-caught merger · phonemic merger · horse-hoarse merger · premerger · pin-pen merger · antimerger · demerger · hurry-furry merger · reverse merger · cure-fir merger · father-bother merger · low back merger · nonmerger · mirror-nearer merger · mergerless · wine-whine merger · megamerger · nurse merger · meet-meat merger · Mary-marry-merry merger · postmerger · multimerger · cure-nurse merger · weak vowel merger · line-loin merger

Relateds

takeover · rollup · buyout · sellout · mergence · alliance

Synonyms

phonemic merger · fusion · combination

Translations (75)

sk fúzia (the act or process of merging) · fi sulautuminen (the legal union of two or more corporations) · de Fusion (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi yhteensulautuminen (the act or process of merging) · ga cumasc (the legal union of two or more corporations) · nb sammenslåing (the act or process of merging) · fa ادغام (the act or process of merging) · fr fusion (the act or process of merging) · bg сливане (the act or process of merging) · ka შერწყმა (the act or process of merging) · hu fúzió (the act or process of merging) · pl fuzja (the act or process of merging) · cs fúze (the act or process of merging) · nl samensmelting (the act or process of merging) · ka გაერთიანება (the act or process of merging) · uk злива́ння (the act or process of merging) · ru слия́ние (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ru поглоще́ние (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi sulautuminen (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · id penggabungan (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ar اِنْدِمَاج (the act or process of merging) · ru объедине́ние (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ja 統合 (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ru слия́ние (the legal union of two or more corporations) · hy միաձուլում (the legal union of two or more corporations) · nl opslorping (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · de Zusammenfügung (the act or process of merging) · cmn 合併 /合并 (the act or process of merging) · fi yritysfuusio (the legal union of two or more corporations) · be зліццё (the act or process of merging) · ru поглоще́ние (the act or process of merging) · uk злиття́ (the act or process of merging) · nl fusie (the legal union of two or more corporations) · de Firmenzusammenschluss (the legal union of two or more corporations) · it unione (the act or process of merging) · ja 合併 (the act or process of merging) · sv sammanslagning (the act or process of merging) · cmn 合併 /合并 (the legal union of two or more corporations) · pt fusão (the act or process of merging) · uk злиття́ (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi sulautuma (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ka გაერთიანება (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi sulautuminen (the act or process of merging) · hu egyesülés (the act or process of merging) · de Fusion (the act or process of merging) · fi yhdistyminen (the act or process of merging) · ru поглоще́ние (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · fi sulauttaminen (the act or process of merging) · ja 統合 (the act or process of merging) · de Zusammenschluss (the legal union of two or more corporations) · es mersión (the act or process of merging) · fi fuusio (the legal union of two or more corporations) · de Verschmelzung (the act or process of merging) · hu összeolvadás (the act or process of merging) · ka შეერთება (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ka შთანთქმა (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · it fusione (the act or process of merging) · ja 合併 (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fr fusion (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ka შერწყმა (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · pt fusão (the legal union of two or more corporations) · hi विलय (the act or process of merging) · hi विलय (the legal union of two or more corporations) · es mergimiento (the act or process of merging) · nl versmelting (the act or process of merging) · ru слия́ние (the act or process of merging) · nl amalgamatie (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ka შერწყმა (the legal union of two or more corporations) · be зьліцьцё (the act or process of merging) · bg обединяване (the act or process of merging) · mk спојување (the act or process of merging) · hi विलय (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ko 합병 (the act or process of merging) · fr fusionnement (the act or process of merging) · nl fusie (the act or process of merging)