merger

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: merg=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

merger, n. 

•  One who, or that which, merges.  [1913 Webster]
•  An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.  [1913 Webster]
•  The combining of two groups into a unified single group under a single leadership, with voluntary participation by the leaders or management of both groups.  [PJC]
•  The combining of two commercial enterprises into a unified single enterprise under a single management, with voluntary participation by both parties; as, the merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler into Daimler-Chrysler created a powerful competitor in the automobile manufacturing industry. Compare acquisition and takeover.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

merger, n.
1 the combining of two commercial companies etc. into one.
2 a merging, esp. of one estate in another.
3 Law the absorbing of a minor offence in a greater one.

Etymology

AF (as MERGE)

THESAURUS

merger

Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloyage, amalgamation, articulation, assimilation, association, blend, blending, bond, bracketing, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, clustering, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling, commixture, communication, composition, comradeship, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence, copartnership, copartnery, copulation, coupling, eclecticism, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusing, fusion, gathering, hookup, identification, immixture, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interlinking, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, meld, melding, mergence, merging, mingling, mixing, mixture, package, package deal, pairing, partnership, pluralism, pooling, sodality, solidification, sorority, splice, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding, yoking