buyout
- noun
- /ˈbaɪˌaʊt/
- Specialized
- After months of discussions, the board approved the buyout that would merge the two firms under one leadership.
- leveraged buyout
- management buyout
- employee buyout
Debt leverage buyouts put huge debt on the club.
- Debt leverage buyouts put huge debt on the club.
- And look, we were able to come to terms on the buyout.
- First, let's briefly touch on hedge fund buyouts.
- I don't think that I would take a buyout offer from for House Hack because I want House Hack to go public.
- There's one simple way in which Twitter could save this whole buyout deal and force Elon Musk to honour the contract he signed.
- This paper found that the underlying companies that buyout funds invest in have on average smaller market caps than their public counterparts.
- Intel reportedly I in a sci-fi buyout.
- And he's been there through the Reebok buyout, then Venom buyout and fight is coming and going and acquisitions and stuff like that.
- Why is it that we have a system, especially in the leveraged buyout world of private equity, where the norm is by lever strip and flip, right?
- And when I think of PEI, think of big SAS, leveraged buyouts or healthcare roll UPS.
Examples
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Today, many private equity firms, ourselves included, do some buyouts as well as early-stage seed investing.
Academic text (1995) -
When U.S. markets were thriving, one spouse would have offered a cash buyout instead of relinquishing financial assets, Plesent says.
Academic text (2009) -
And a big test is what is the buyout value at the end?
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I got the highest buyout figure any one of us ever got.
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Jobs' computer software company NEXT, has entered into buyout talks with his former company, Apple Computer.
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The tobacco buyout program had a far greater impact at the county level between 2002 and 2007.
Academic text (2011) -
At $18.7 billion, the public-to-private buyout was the largest in history.
Academic text (2001) -
Tired of doing battle with AEP, a large majority of Cheshire's citizens accepted the buyout offer.
Academic text (2005) -
In addition, they invested in leveraged buyouts where returns were better than in venture capital.
Academic text (1993) -
The company negotiated a significant buyout that allowed it to acquire a controlling stake in its competitor.
Synonyms
Gaining control of a company by buying its shares or merging with it
One company buys another company even though its managers say no
Buying a company mostly with borrowed money and using its assets as security for the loan
A purchase of a company that its managers accept
New owners sell a company's parts to pay the debt they used to buy it
The purchase of one company by another to gain business benefits
Antonyms
- Specialized
A sudden fall in stock or bond prices when many people try to get rid of them
Compounds
- Specialized
Buying a company mostly with borrowed money and using its assets as security for the loan
How Controlling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buyout is made of buy and out, where out means 'out of' a business, so a buyout originally meant paying to take someone's share and make them leave. So a buyout today usually means buying enough of a company to take control.