喜樂美語
  1. 1nC2/ˈmɜːrdʒər/ · /ˈmɜːdʒə/合併

    When two or more companies or groups join together to become one larger company or group.

    示範例句 · Example

    The two bookstores announced a merger and will share one big store next year.

    逐字那兩間書店宣布了一個合併，並且明年將共用一間大店。

    「merger」指兩家（或更多）公司／組織「合在一起，變成一家更大的」。核心畫面可以想成兩條線匯成一條：兩家店、兩家銀行、兩個社團，最後變成同一個名字。常見說法：a merger between A and B、a merger with another company、a proposed merger（提議中的合併）。它跟 acquisition（收購）容易搞混——acquisition 多半是「一家把另一家買下來」；merger 強調「雙方合起來變成一個」。

    常見搭配

    • merger between / of

      ……之間／的合併

      the joining of two named companies or groups

      They discussed a merger between the two toy companies.

    • merger with

      與……合併

      joining together with another company or group

      The bakery talked about a merger with a nearby café.

    • proposed merger

      提議中的合併；合併案

      a plan for two companies to join that is not finished yet

      News about the proposed merger filled the business page.

    • complete a / the merger

      完成合併

      to finish the legal joining of the companies

      The two game studios completed the merger in June.

    • approve the merger

      批准合併

      to officially say yes to the joining plan

      The board voted to approve the merger.

    • merger agreement

      合併協議

      a written deal that sets the rules of the joining

      Both sides signed the merger agreement on Monday.

    • mergers and acquisitions

      併購（合併與收購）

      the business field of company joinings and buyouts

      She reads the mergers and acquisitions news every week.

    意思相反

    splitseparationdivestiture

core核心畫面

Picture two company names on a door being taken down and one new name going up. A merger is that event — not one firm swallowing another, but both agreeing to become a single larger thing. The word almost always belongs to business pages.

可以想成：門口兩塊公司招牌被拆下來，換上一塊新的。merger 就是這件事——不是一家把另一家吞下去，而是雙方同意變成同一個更大的組織。這個字幾乎只出現在財經版面，看到它就知道在講企業之間的整併。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

  • 動詞merge
  • 形容詞merged

複數 mergers

意思相反

splitseparationdivestiture

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

mergernoun詞源 1/ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/

  • 1

    One that merges.

mergernoun詞源 2/ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/

  • 1

    The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.

    • Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
  • 2

    economicssciencesThe legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.

    • The company has had some success with its EV offerings, such as the Nissan Leaf, an asset it brought to the table in merger discussions. EV development costs have created a powerful incentive for carmakers to explore mergers as a way to share the financial burden, according to analysts.
  • 3

    lawAn absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.

  • 4

    human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyA type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.

    • the cot-caught merger
    • If the presence of *θ in Sardinian words of Punic origin is indeed taken as evidence for an affricated realization of Semitic *z, this implies that the variety of Punic, that was the source of the Sardinian punicisms, did not exhibit the merger of Semitic *s, *z, *ṣ, *ś into /s/.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。