HORIZONTAL COMBINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horizontal combination mean? 

• HORIZONTAL COMBINATION (noun)
  The noun HORIZONTAL COMBINATION has 1 sense:

1. absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level

  Familiarity information: HORIZONTAL COMBINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORIZONTAL COMBINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

horizontal combination; horizontal integration

Hypernyms ("horizontal combination" is a kind of...):

consolidation; integration (the act of combining into an integral whole)