merger

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/

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• (General American, Canada) enPR: mûrʹjər, IPA^(key): /ˈmɝ.d͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: merg‧er

From merge +‎ -er.

merger (plural mergers)

1. One that merges.

From Anglo-Norman merger (verb used as 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

   • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 394:

     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/.

• combination
• fusion
• (linguistics): phonemic merger

• division

• mergence

• alliance
• buyout
• rollup
• sellout
• takeover

• “merger”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “merger”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.