vertical integration

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 combination

   Broaderconsolidation

Questions about vertical integration

What does vertical integration mean?

vertical integration 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 integration?

Close synonyms include vertical 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 vertical integration a common word?

vertical 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.