Meaning & use

Merge

verb·Everyday

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To combine or blend two or more things so that they become one.

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The two companies agreed to merge after months of negotiation.

Drivers must merge into a single lane ahead of the construction zone.

A note on using this word

In computing, 'merge' also describes combining different versions of a file or codebase into one, as in a 'merge conflict.'

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