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hostile takeover

NOUN
  1. a takeover that is resisted by the management of the target company

How To Use hostile takeover In A Sentence

  • The company managed to fend off the hostile takeover bid.
  • a leveraged buyout by upper management can be used to combat hostile takeover bids
  • The company managed to fend off the hostile takeover bid.
  • But it's now facing a hostile takeover bid by a Suffolk based-brewery, Greene King.
  • Greenmail is the practice of buying larger share of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value.
  • While she could manage a hostile takeover or an IPO, she didn't know how to cook very many things. INSIDERS
  • Shareholders can protect themselves from hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts by not agreeing to sell their shareholdings at a discount.
  • Under the pressure of tight margins, hostile takeovers and cutthroat rivalry, air safety has been increasingly sacrificed to the requirements of profit and the markets.
  • Canadian miners whose proposed merger is under pressure from hostile takeover bids, reaffirmed their support for their planned union. Times, Sunday Times
  • Industry observers say there have been no other successful hostile takeovers of a large European bank.
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