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VERTICAL COMBINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertical combination mean? 

VERTICAL COMBINATION (noun)
  The noun VERTICAL COMBINATION has 1 sense:

1. absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distributionplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


VERTICAL COMBINATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

vertical combination; vertical integration

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

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


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