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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
takeover
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a takeover bid (=an offer to buy another company)
▪ Staff are afraid that the takeover bid will threaten some of their jobs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
communist
▪ The result would, at best, have been clerical absolutism, at worst, Communist takeover or civil war.
▪ An example was Chau Hon, who continued to run his bakery after the Communist takeover.
▪ So potent is the tradition of Czech cafe society, that most cafes were shut down after the Communist takeover in 1948.
▪ On the crowded streets of Hong Kong, the masses feel less sanguine about the Communist takeover.
contested
▪ Another specific influence on both share prices and option premiums is the expectation and likelihood of a contested takeover.
▪ The lack of this information presents a barrier both to contested and agreed takeover bids.
▪ The attitude to foreign takeovers is now considered by studying the contested takeover for Rowntree.
▪ This will be particularly important in relation to contested takeovers where the offeror can expect little co-operation from the board of the target.
corporate
▪ The deal is Ireland's biggest corporate takeover.
▪ Their spree of corporate takeovers is, for the most part, wildly ill-advised and poorly executed.
▪ I find it really depressing that a city as diverse as New York has succumbed to this kind of corporate takeover.
hostile
▪ T Cowie was not successful in its £32m hostile takeover bid for Henlys.
▪ But it's now facing a hostile takeover bid by a Suffolk based-brewery, Greene King.
▪ Round one to Morlands ... brewery fight off hostile takeover.
▪ The only way they can protect themselves against hostile takeovers is to get the stock price up.
▪ Shareholders can protect themselves from hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts by not agreeing to sell their shareholdings at a discount.
▪ The only difference with hostile takeovers may be that the prices are higher.
possible
▪ But news of a major management bloodletting, impending layoffs and a possible takeover cast a pall over the festivities.
proposed
▪ But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding.
▪ His decree appeared designed to prevent a proposed takeover of the media by the Congress of People's Deputies.
republican
▪ The Republican takeover of Congress deflated that notion, though, and he no longer stresses it.
▪ Most likely it will be taken from budgets for Democrats, who are losing staff because of the Republican takeover.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ This is evident especially in the food and drinks industries, both of which have seen takeover activity during the 1980s.
▪ Hopes that political stability will encourage a bout of takeover activity, directed attention at all the old bid chestnuts.
▪ He describes the reasons for takeover activity being so fevered in the 1980s and shows how accounts reflected them.
▪ The following section examines in greater detail the barriers to increased takeover activity in the Community.
attempt
▪ Kingfisher's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons.
▪ Westinghouse last week adopted a poisonpill plan to make any takeover attempt tougher.
▪ A takeover attempt by another corporation is a very real danger to a corporation with dissatisfied stockholders.
battle
▪ Jobs under threat ... Dowty loses the hostile takeover battle.
▪ But the New York-based company's structure underwent a massive upheaval after industry rivals Lasmo won a three-month takeover battle last December.
▪ This, therefore, set the scene for a three-way takeover battle for the future of Rowntree.
▪ Read in studio A second important deadline has passed in the takeover battle for Oxfordshire brewers, Morland.
▪ Sometimes the reaction to a share exchange offer may be affected by the offeror's conduct during the takeover battle.
▪ These issues caused great controversy at the time of the takeover battle.
▪ Guinness, in addition to its traditional brewing interests, had acquired Bell's whisky after an acrimonious takeover battle in 1985.
bid
▪ Knighton is reported to be ready to abandon his takeover bid.
▪ In 1995, nine of those regional utilities faced takeover bids.
▪ Despite the results and the dividend being lower than expected, Saatchi shares rose 15p yesterday on hopes of a takeover bid.
▪ Morgan Chase &038; Co. to discuss how to defend the world's No. 4 automaker from takeover bids.
▪ Even so, a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption.
▪ Read in studio An aerospace company will hear tomorrow whether it has managed to fight off a takeover bid.
▪ The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid.
▪ Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio A takeover bid for an Oxfordshire brewery has failed again.
candidate
▪ Eastern Airlines, long a takeover candidate, found itself in bankruptcy, not the arms of a suitor.
▪ While the exodus of top people seems to be growing, sources said that Apple is still an attractive takeover candidate.
▪ The company was rumored to be a takeover candidate years down the road but not immediately.
▪ Several retailers are expected to be takeover candidates as a slowing economy reduces sales and profits, analysts said.
offer
▪ Types of takeover offer General offer A general offer is an offer for the entire issued equity share capital of a company.
▪ A Court Scheme represents an alternative to a takeover offer as a method of acquiring control of a public company.
▪ Recommended offer A takeover offer which is recommended by the board of the target company.
▪ It may be used to acquire control of a target company as an alternative to a takeover offer.
▪ For this reason, by far the majority of takeovers proceed by way of a takeover offer.
▪ The form of the announcement, as with a takeover offer, will be governed by Rule 2.5 of the Code.
▪ Mandatory offer A takeover offer required to be made under Rule 9 of the City Code.
speculation
▪ Composites, which have attracted takeover speculation, were inclined to ease on disappointment that Pearl had been targeted.
▪ But takeover speculation could give the stock some zip.
▪ They fell 2p to 495p while United gained 7p to 421p on continuing takeover speculation.
▪ Fuld refused to comment on takeover speculation.
target
▪ It's not the first time Barphone has been a takeover target.
▪ Harrison said a crucial issue was the continued speculation that Fairfax was a prime takeover target.
▪ A valuation of a smaller company must take account of its potential as a takeover target.
▪ Since Apple has long been rumored to be a takeover target, the letter added to the angst in Cupertino.
▪ On something of a buying binge lately and snapping up smaller cable operators, Cogeco is itself seen as a takeover target.
■ VERB
complete
▪ Chase Manhattan completed a takeover of J.P.
fight
▪ Read in studio An aerospace company will hear tomorrow whether it has managed to fight off a takeover bid.
▪ The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid.
▪ Kingfisher's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons.
▪ Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits.
▪ Read in studio One of the region's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid - at least for the time being.
follow
▪ This downward pressure may be increased by underwriters or accepting shareholders selling offeror shares in the market following the takeover.
▪ Reports of atrocities had followed the takeover by the rebels of the town of Lalaua in Nampula province on 29 June.
launch
▪ Further asset sales from breaking up ConsGold will put it in an even stronger position from which to launch further takeovers.
▪ This gave rise to speculation that Suchard planned to use these funds to launch another takeover bid, possibly for Cadbury Schweppes.
make
▪ Perhaps it was inevitable that, one day, Psion would have to make a bold takeover of one sort or another.
▪ Westinghouse last week adopted a poisonpill plan to make any takeover attempt tougher.
▪ But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding.
▪ The company announced Tuesday it had adopted a shareholder rights plan designed to make a takeover more costly.
▪ This, together with laws that protect minority shareholders, makes takeovers both easier and harder.
▪ In this sector, he also thinks software concern Davidson &038; Co. might make an interesting takeover play.
▪ Despite rumours of a coup, most people believe the army has been sufficiently depoliticised to make a takeover unlikely.
prevent
▪ His decree appeared designed to prevent a proposed takeover of the media by the Congress of People's Deputies.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hostile takeover/bid
▪ But some societies fear hostile bids - a subject on the agenda at the Building Societies Association council meeting tomorrow.
▪ Jobs under threat ... Dowty loses the hostile takeover battle.
▪ Most bids were hostile, or were responses to actual or threatened hostile bids.
▪ Round one to Morlands ... brewery fight off hostile takeover.
▪ The only difference with hostile takeovers may be that the prices are higher.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Court Scheme represents an alternative to a takeover offer as a method of acquiring control of a public company.
▪ Harrison said a crucial issue was the continued speculation that Fairfax was a prime takeover target.
▪ In this sector, he also thinks software concern Davidson & Co. might make an interesting takeover play.
▪ It was doubtless because the government was then concerned about possible foreign reaction to a takeover.
▪ Lurking in the background, too, are the constant takeover rumors about the bank, the largest in Florida.
▪ Since March 1989 and prior to the takeover late last year, Hawker reduced its head-count dramatically.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
takeover

takeover \take"o*ver\ n. (Business, Finance) The acquisition of ownership of one company by another company, usually by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock or by exchanging stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company. It is a hostile takeover if the management of the company being taken over is opposed to the deal. A hostile takeover is sometimes organized by a corporate raider.

Syn: acquisition, buyout

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
takeover

1917, "an act of taking over," from verbal phrase take over (1884), from take (v.) + over (adv.). Attested from 1958 in the corporate sense.

Wiktionary
takeover

n. (label en economics) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.

WordNet
takeover
  1. n. a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force [syn: coup d'etat, coup, putsch]

  2. a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation

Wikipedia
Takeover

In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer, or bidder). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.

Takeover (song)

"Takeover" is a track recorded by Jay-Z for his 2001 album The Blueprint. The song is a diss track aimed at rappers Nas and Prodigy of Mobb Deep.

Takeover (disambiguation)

Takeover or Take Over may refer to:

  • Takeover, the purchase of one company by another
  • Several events called NXT TakeOver held by WWE
  • IRC takeover, an IRC term
  • Failover, a term used in information technology for a High Availability
  • Occupation of a building or other site as a form of protest
  • Hijacking (disambiguation), various means of taking over a form of transportation
Takeover (film)

Takeover is a 1988 Australian film about George Oppenheimer, a computer inventor.

Usage examples of "takeover".

Some called him a savage because of his corporate takeover practices, but to Benoit, on that first evening, he was a charming savage.

I still had some stock options left over from the takeover of Coria Bright Matter.

Takeovers get sloppy when the sought-after club seeks shark repellent and allies with other gangs to fight off the suitor.

It also marks another big step in the takeover of geochemical processes by living things: most Phanerozoic limestones are made of biological debris.

Entry races for common factors, and, more important, we wanted to know why none of the six hexes surrounding Yugash were open to their takeover.

During the takeover of the weaker landholding those many years ago, Dokken had indeed slaughtered the entire Van Petersden family and replaced the true infant Michel with another of his clones.

Baldwin who convinced the Gala CEO that my spectacular disgrace would better serve the cause by doing a mindfuck on my father and softening him up for the multipronged takeover assault.

Today, however, the subject of the takeover of Canrifwas making him testier than usual.

And Warminster sounds dotty enough to opt for violence as a means of securing his takeover of RABD.

Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.

My counterparts on the South Vietnamese delegation, the Four Party Joint Military Team, evacuated their families, but they stayed to the very end and ended up in re-education camps, by and large, after the takeover.

While those petitions circulate, Gov. Chiles should move ahead swiftly with a state takeover of the budget.

That was the description given to the takeover of the networks by industrial conglomerates whose insistence on constantly enlarging profits outweighed their sense of privilege and public duty.

Within very few years after the takeover, the newly rebuilt fort was strong and comfortable for what it wasa primitive fortification set in the midst of a primitive wildernessthe old, Irish croplands had been recleared and once more were producing fine yields, herds of swine and goats and flocks of chickens battened in the woods, and a saw pit was reducing cured timber to planks for the church under construction in the riverside settlement.

The few spaceplanes the Engineers had not destroyed in the first, violent days of their takeover were fueled and filled with troops.