merger
A2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The extinguishment of a lesser estate when it and a greater estate come into the same ownership.
When the tenant bought the freehold, the lease was extinguished by merger.
Business noun
The combining of two companies into one.
The merger created the region's largest bank.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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