Merger vs Affiliation - What's the difference?
merger | affiliation |
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
(economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
(legal) 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.
(linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.
A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.
As nouns the difference between merger and affiliation
is that merger is the act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit while affiliation is the relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.merger
English
(wikipedia merger)Noun
(en noun)- ''Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
- the cot-caught merger