[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a statutory combination of two or more corporations by the transfer of the properties to one surviving corporation.", "any combination of two or more business enterprises into a single enterprise.", "an act or instance of merging :Astronomers say that the merger of galaxies can take a billion years.", "Phonetics.the process or phenomenon whereby two distinct speech sounds come to be pronounced identically: for instance, thecot–caughtvowel merger has taken place in some dialects of English."]}]