hostile takeover

noun

: an attempt to buy a company when the people who own the company do not want to sell it

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Recent Examples on the Web The lender is the subject of a hostile takeover bid from larger Spanish bank, BBVA. Sam Meredith,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024 The agreement prepares to close the books on the Redstone family’s 37-year tenure at the company formerly known as Viacom, beginning with Sumner Redstone’s hostile takeover in 1987. Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024 For that matter, either Baghdadi’s or Zawahiri’s deaths could pave the way for a rapprochement, whether involving a consensual reunification or a hostile takeover of one group by the other. Bruce Hoffman, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2016 An engineer at a biotech start-up fights an attraction to the man planning a hostile takeover of her company. Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 10 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for hostile takeover 

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“Hostile takeover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hostile%20takeover. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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