(~s, amalgamating, ~d)
When two or more things, especially organizations, ~ or are ~d, they become one large thing.
The firm has ~d with an American company...
The chemical companies had ~d into a vast conglomerate...
The Visitors’ Centre ~s the traditions of the Old World with the technology of the New.
= merge
V-RECIP: V with/into n, pl-n V, V n with/into n
amalgamation (amalgamations)
Athletics South Africa was formed by an amalgamation of two organisations.
= merger
N-VAR: oft N of n