to separate or divide a company or organization that was previously merged; to break apart a corporate combination.
From 'de-' (reverse) + 'merge' (from Latin 'mergere' to dip or combine). A modern business term created when companies needed to describe reversing mergers.
In the 1980s when big mergers proved unpopular, businesses invented 'demerge' to describe splitting apart — it's English creating new verbs to match economic realities.
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