mergers
- 1Plural of merger.
The agency reviewed a wave of corporate mergers for antitrust concerns.
Cross-border mergers often face complicated regulatory hurdles in multiple countries.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, and it belongs mostly to the countable uses of the word. Corporate law counts mergers as separate unions of companies. Property law counts the absorptions of estates or contracts into one holding. Linguists count sound mergers, where two sounds have fallen together. The general act of merging is a process rather than an event, so it usually stays singular.
mergers is a form of merger
merger, noun: The legal joining of two or more corporations into a single entity, with the buying party usually taking on the assets and liabilities. Full entry
- Forms
- mergermergers plural
- Spelling
- merger → mergers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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