HORIZONTAL COMBINATION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level
   
   Synonym(s)
   • horizontal integration (what does horizontal integration mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) horizontal combination is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • consolidation (what does consolidation mean?)
   • integration (what does integration mean?)