In a horizontal merger, the acquisition of a competitor could increase market concentration and increase the likelihood of collusion. 在橫向合并中，市場(chǎng)競爭者可獲得的是提高市場(chǎng)的集中程度及增加串謀的可能性。
They argue that without comparable data for earlier periods, there is no basis for claiming that the degree of concentration of land ownership was rising over time. 他們聲稱(chēng)，由于沒(méi)有更早時(shí)期的數據可供比較，因此不能說(shuō)土地所有權的集中程度是隨著(zhù)時(shí)間上升的。
