the joining together of two or more companies or organizations to form a single new company or organization.
The two companies announced their merger today.
This merger will make them the biggest retailer in Europe.
✦ Early 18th century: from French merger 'to merge,' from Latin mergere, reinforced by English merge + -er.
a marriage, especially one viewed in terms of the combining of two family fortunes or estates.
Their merger united two of the wealthiest families in town.
Society watched the high-society merger with interest.
the process by which two phonemes become indistinguishable and are realized by a single phoneme.
The vowel merger changed the pronunciation over generations.
This dialect features a famous cot-caught merger.
