horizontal integration

1. 1.

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

   Synonymshorizontal combination

   Broaderconsolidation

Questions about horizontal integration

What does horizontal integration mean?

horizontal integration 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 integration?

Close synonyms include horizontal combination. 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 integration a common word?

horizontal integration 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.