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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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.
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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
Voiced brilliantly by Maya Hawke, the hyper-active, orange, and stringy Anxiety mounts a hostile takeover of Riley’s emotions with cohorts Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser).
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
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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
Voiced brilliantly by Maya Hawke, the hyper-active, orange, and stringy Anxiety mounts a hostile takeover of Riley’s emotions with cohorts Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser).
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
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“Hostile takeover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hostile%20takeover. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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