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| The practice of combining seperate companies. |
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| The uniform width of 4 feet, 8.5 inches for railroad tracks, adopted during the 1800's. |
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| Discount or return of part of a payment. |
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| A group sharing in some activity. |
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| Charitable acts or gifts of money to benefit the community. |
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| A production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before them. |
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| The production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line. |
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| A business in which investors own shares. |
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| Shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carry voting power. |
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| A person who invests in a corporation by buying stock and is a partial owner. |
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| A stockholder's share of a company's profits, usually as a cash payment. |
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| The combining of companies that supply equipment and services needed for a particular industry. |
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| The combining of competeing firms into one corporation. |
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| A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition. |
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| Total control of a type of industry by a person or company. |
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| The combining of two or more businesses into one. |
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