单词 | merger |
释义 | merger (once / 951 pages) n When two companies become one company, they've had a merger. A merger is like a marriage for things other than people. It might help you remember merger to think of something that happens on the highway: several lanes sometimes have to merge into one lane. Merging leads to more than one thing becoming one. Words that mean something similar to merger are unification and fusion. Separation and break-up are opposites of a merger. WORD FAMILYmerger: mergers+/merge: merged, merger, merges, merging/merging: mergings USAGE EXAMPLESOr trade secrets, and valuable inside information about mergers or drug trials. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The U.S. semiconductor industry is facing an unprecedented wave of consolidations, with mergers and acquisitions in the sector valued last year at over $100 billion. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The merger last year was widely seen as an important step in the transfer of Samsung’s leadership from Lee Kun-hee to Jay Y. Lee. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n an occurrence that involves the production of a union Syn|Hyper fusion, unification union the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts 2n the combination of two or more commercial companies Syn|Hyper amalgamation, uniting consolidation, integration the act of combining into an integral whole |
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