слияние(учреждений, организаций); объединение; смешение; совокупность(Alex_Odeychuk); амальгамирование(Consolidation or amalgamation is the act of merging many things into one. In business, it often refers to the mergers and acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group company as consolidated financial statements. The taxation term of consolidation refers to the treatment of a group of companies and other entities as one entity for tax purposes. Under the Halsbury's Laws of England, 'amalgamation' is defined as "a blending together of two or more undertakings into one undertaking, the shareholders of each blending company, becoming, substantially, the shareholders of the blended undertakings. There may be amalgamations, either by transfer of two or more undertakings to a new company, or to the transfer of one or more companies to an existing company". Thus, the two concepts are, substantially, the same. However, the term amalgamation is more common when the organizations being merged are private schools or regiments. WAD Alexander Demidov); сортучивание
слияние(По британскому праву это – объединение двух или более хозяйствующих субъектов, в результате которого образуется новая экономическая единица. Alexander Matytsin)
слияние нескольких муниципалитетов в один(с целью централизации принятия решений и сокращения расходов • Having seen how useless and generally bad the amalgamation in Toronto and Ottawa went, we really shouldn't amalgamate. Metro Vancouver is too large to just have one city, especially the way the rivers and ocean divide the municipalities. (Reddit)ART Vancouver)
