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VERTICAL COMBINATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vertical combination mean?
• VERTICAL COMBINATION (noun)
The noun VERTICAL COMBINATION has 1 sense:
1. absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution
Familiarity information: VERTICAL COMBINATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
vertical combination; vertical integration
Hypernyms ("vertical combination" is a kind of...):
consolidation; integration (the act of combining into an integral whole)
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