merger
/ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One that merges.
noun
The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
noun
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.
noun
A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
Example Sentences
- "Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half"
- "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."
- "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/."
Etymology
Etymology tree English merge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English merger From merge + -er.
Word Breakdown
- Root: merger
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/
- British English: /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/