vertical combination

1. 1.

   absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution

   Synonymsvertical integration

   Broaderconsolidation

Questions about vertical combination

What does vertical combination mean?

vertical combination means "absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution".

What is another word for vertical combination?

Close synonyms include vertical 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 vertical combination a common word?

vertical 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.