- 1nC2
/ˈmɜːrdʒər/ · /ˈmɜːdʒə/
When two or more companies or groups join together to become one larger company or group.
合併
複數 mergers
核心畫面
Picture two company names on a door being taken down and one new name going up. A merger is that event — not one firm swallowing another, but both agreeing to become a single larger thing. The word almost always belongs to business pages.
可以想成：門口兩塊公司招牌被拆下來，換上一塊新的。merger 就是這件事——不是一家把另一家吞下去，而是雙方同意變…更多收起
可以想成：門口兩塊公司招牌被拆下來，換上一塊新的。merger 就是這件事——不是一家把另一家吞下去，而是雙方同意變成同一個更大的組織。這個字幾乎只出現在財經版面，看到它就知道在講企業之間的整併。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mergernoun詞源 1/ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/
- 1
One that merges.
mergernoun詞源 2/ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/
- 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
economicssciencesThe legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
- The company has had some success with its EV offerings, such as the Nissan Leaf, an asset it brought to the table in merger discussions. EV development costs have created a powerful incentive for carmakers to explore mergers as a way to share the financial burden, according to analysts.
- 3
lawAn 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
human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyA type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
- the cot-caught merger
- 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/.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。