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German
Etymology
From Elefant (“elephant”) + -en + Hochzeit (“wedding”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Ele‧fan‧ten‧hoch‧zeit
Noun
Elefantenhochzeit f (genitive Elefantenhochzeit, plural Elefantenhochzeiten)
- (economics, colloquial) huge merger
2001, Hartmut Weber, Engagiert - aber wofür? 73 Jahre erlebte Politik und Religion 1928-2001, page 291:Das Ende vom Liede eines starken Kartellamtes ist bekannt: Die „Elefantenhochzeit“ zwischen Daimler und MBB Anfang der 90er Jahre, die der damalige Bundesminister für Wirtschaft, Dr. Helmut Haußmann (FDP) entgegen dem Votum des Bundeskartellamtes genehmigt hatte. Und heute (2000) erfahren wir jede Woche von einer „Elefantenhochzeit“.- The end of the story of a strong Cartel Office is well known: the big merger of Daimler and MBB in the early 90s, which the then Federal Minister of Economy, Dr. Helmut Haussmann (FDP), had authorised against the vote of the Federal Cartel Office. And today (2000) we hear of a such a “big merger” every other week.
- (politics, colloquial) grand coalition
- 2013, Sabine Kropp, Regieren in Koalitionen. Handlungsmuster und Entscheidungsbildung in deutschen Länderregierungen, Springer (publ.), page 143.
In Thüringen wiederum gingen SPD und CDU keine Wunschkoalition ein; die “Elefantenhochzeit” der beiden großen Parteien zählt überdies zu den “nicht-konformen” Koalitionen.- In Thuringia, on the other hand, SPD and CDU did not entertain the coalition of their dreams; the grand coalition of the two big parties is a “non-compliant” coalition after all.
Declension
Declension of Elefantenhochzeit
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