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Webster 1913 Edition


Merger

Mer′ger

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Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, merges.
2.
(Law)
An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

Webster 1828 Edition


Merger

MERG'ER

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Noun.
[L. mergo, to merge.] In law, a merging or drowning of a less estate in a greater; as when a reversion in fee simple descends to or is purchased by a tenant of the same estate for years, the term for years is merged, lost, annihilated in the inheritance or fee simple estate.

Definition 2024


merger

merger

English

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. (linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
    the cot-caught merger

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