1970 17 May iii. 13/1 Richard W. McLaren, the Justice Department's antitrust chief..has suggested the trend toward what he termed ‘merger mania’ may have peaked early last year.
1983 12 Apr. 17/8 Many of these bids are the harmless, even beneficial, eruptions of market forces. But mergermania is not good.
1993 31 Jan. 7/1 We lose a little bit of our state's scarce history every time such a name slips into oblivion through merger mania.