VERTICAL COMBINATION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product’’s manufacture from raw materials to distribution
   Synonym(s)
   • vertical integration (what does vertical integration mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) vertical 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?)