merger mania
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmergerandmania
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merger
noun[C]
uk/ˈmɜː.dʒər/us/ˈmɝː.dʒɚ/
an occasion when two or more companies or organizations join together to make one ...
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mania
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/us/ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
disapproving
a very strong interest in something that fills a person's mind or uses up all ...
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I was concerned about what in the 1980s had begun to be called "mergermania".
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But the conditions that prompted the takeover fever and themergermaniastill prevail.
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There has been a spate ofmergermaniaduring the past few years.
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Some have even gone so far as to describe the country as in the throes of an attack of "mergermania".
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Indeed, there had been reference to what was described as "mergermania".
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Yet those people know the truth, because the food and drink industry, more than any other, has been the victim ofmergermania.
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Is this not a further example of themergermaniathat seems to be rife?
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Today, investment is not being made in new products because we are in the grip ofmergermania.
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It is very concerned indeed about the threat, as it sees it, to workforces because of what has been described as "mergermania".
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For a while, in the succeeding years,mergermaniaappeared to abate.
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The greatmergermaniaof the time did not result in a greater proportion of our domestic market being captured by the newly-merged companies.
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However, they are still susceptible to themergermania.
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The media has aptly described what has been taking place as "mergermania".
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The fact is that the present atmosphere ofmergermaniais extremely disturbing to many people —to workers at the work bench and also to management in small companies.
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I am reminded of themergermania.
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Britain is in the grip ofmergermania.
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Does she not see a danger ofmergermaniataking off again as companies try her on to find out what is guiding her in these deliberations?
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In essence, these amendments would take us a little further towards what we regard as a sensible way of controlling what is known as "mergermania".
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Passing from monopolies as such to mergers and takeovers—and the two matters are very intimately related—we are at present again in one of these periods ofmergermania.
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Corporations began to allow for corporate indemnification in the 1940s and 1950s, and the 1960smergermaniawas followed by costly litigation.
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