different between merger vs mercer

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: mûr?j?r, IPA^(key): /?m?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??(?)
• Hyphenation: merg?er

Etymology 1

From merge +? -er.

Noun

merger (plural mergers)

1. One that merges.

Etymology 2

Old French merger (“verb used as noun”)

Noun

merger (plural mergers)

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. (economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
3. (law) An 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. (phonology) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.

   the cot-caught merger

Synonyms

• combination
• fusion
• (linguistics): phonemic merger

Antonyms

• division

Derived terms

Related terms

• mergence

Translations

See also

• alliance
• buyout
• sellout
• takeover

References

• merger at OneLook Dictionary Search
• merger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?m?s?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??s?/

Noun

mercer (plural mercers)

1. A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
   • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

     ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

     He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.

Translations

See also

• haberdasher

Anagrams

• Cremer

Latin

Verb

mercer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of mercor