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Monopolies and Mergers Commission, the
     
Monopolies and Mergers Commission, the
a British government organization whose job is to examine cases where two companies plan to merge (=join together to form a larger company), and to decide whether this would be bad for other businesses and for ordinary customers. There is a similar organization in the US called the FTC (=the Federal Trade Commission).
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