horizontal combination

1. 1.

   absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level

   Synonymshorizontal integration

   Broaderconsolidation

Questions about horizontal combination

What does horizontal combination mean?

horizontal combination means "absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level".

What is another word for horizontal combination?

Close synonyms include horizontal integration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horizontal combination a common word?

horizontal combination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.