poison pill

noun

: a financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted takeover prohibitively expensive or less desirable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Twitter could announce the poison pill as soon as tomorrow. —

Sarah Frier, Bloomberg.com, 14 Apr. 2022 Hanson’s heroics avoided what would have been a poison pill to Oregon’s resume, as Washington entered the night No. 102 in NET and hadn’t beaten a NET top 25 team since 2019-20. —

oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2023 Twitter adopted a poison pill as a measure to prevent Musk from buying up more than 15% of the company, while giving the board more time to consider his bid and plot its next move. —

Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2022 Netflix responded by implementing a poison pill strategy that would be triggered once a single investor owned 10% of shares (or an institutional investor owned 20%). —

Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2022 From the latter article: A central mystery of Mr. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is how the company’s board went from installing a poison pill to agreeing to sell to him in just 11 days. —

Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 2 May 2022 Each bloc has positioned itself to win by swallowing, respectively, a rightist and an ultra-rightist poison pill. —

Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2022 The poison pill isn’t the only strategy Twitter is using to counter Musk’s offer. —

Will Daniel, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2022 Supporters of the project likened the ruling to a poison pill. —

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