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HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION
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I. (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
Synonyms:
horizontal combination; horizontal integration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("horizontal integration" is a kind of...):
consolidation; integration (the act of combining into an integral whole)