amalgamation

amalgamation
    n 1: the combination of two or more commercial companies [syn:
         {amalgamation}, {merger}, {uniting}]
    

Amalgamation \A*mal`ga*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. amalgamation.]
   1. The act or operation of compounding mercury with another
      metal; -- applied particularly to the process of
      separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them
      with mercury. --Ure.
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   2. The mixing or blending of different elements, races,
      societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or
      blending; a homogeneous union. --Macaulay.
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103 Moby Thesaurus words for "amalgamation":
      Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration,
      aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloy, alloyage,
      amalgam, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal,
      cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence,
      coalescing, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality,
      combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling,
      commixture, composite, composition, compost, compound, comradeship,
      confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries,
      conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidating,
      consolidation, conspiracy, copartnership, copartnery, eclecticism,
      ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization,
      federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization,
      freemasonry, fusing, fusion, hookup, immixture, inclusion,
      incorporation, integration, interfusion, interlarding,
      interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture,
      joining, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger,
      mingling, mixing, mixture, package, package deal, partnership,
      pluralism, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism,
      syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification,
      union, uniting, wedding