takeover bid
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈteɪˌkoʊvər bɪd/
- Jargon
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- Public company takeover bids typically consist of all cash or a combination of cash and shares.
- hostile takeover bid
- billion takeover bid
- rival takeover bid
Examples
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With the collapse in Netflix investor confidence and market value over the last 15 months, Netflix is looking to block a hostile takeover bid even as BTIG Research postulates that it could be time for the streaming leader to hang out the 'for sale' sign.
Blog text (16) -
The case concerns Hurwitz's controlling stake in United Savings Association of Texas, which gave him even more assets for his takeover bids.
Academic text (1999) -
Like the time you tried the hostile takeover bid for my TV network.
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Is this kid gonna mess up my hostile takeover bid, or what?
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I'm trying to find out the stock prices to see how my takeover bid is going.
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One blocked takeover bid is very much the exception, not the rule.
Blog text (19) -
The idea, of course, is to make it much more difficult for an outside entity to buy up shares in a hostile takeover bid.
Blog text (16) -
Lately, we seem to spend most of our time fighting takeover bids.
Fiction book (1991) -
"We've been approached by Tennison International with a takeover bid.
Fiction book (1991) -
Last April, he made a surprising takeover bid for Commonwealth Airlines.
Synonyms
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2.7
An offer of money to buy something, often at an auction
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7.5
An offer to buy a company's shares at a higher price than the market
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5.9
An offer to buy all the shares a person or company owns in a business
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'takeover' means obtaining control of a company and 'bid' means an offer, so together they denote an offer to acquire control. This is a regular noun+noun business compound whose meaning follows straightforward semantic combination and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Takeover bid comes from the simple image of an auction: someone makes a bid (an offer of money) to take over a company, like buying control at a sale. So a takeover bid is an offer to buy enough shares 'to gain control' of a firm.