merger

Other forms of merger

plural

mergers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about merger

What does merger mean?

merger means "the combination of two or more commercial companies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in merger?

merger has 2 syllables: mer-ger. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /ˈmɝdʒɚ/.

What is another word for merger?

Close synonyms include amalgamation, uniting, fusion, unification. 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 merger a common word?

merger is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.