hostile takeover
敌意收购,敌意接管,敌视性收购,恶意收购
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Business.
- : a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
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In this day and age in America, whenever a company is faced with a hostile takeover through a tender offer, they adopt a so-called poison pill.
By contrast, a gun will allow a pilot to attack hostile forces that are less than 300 feet from friendly ground forces.
Certainly his clothes support this notion of impending takeover.
They financed the Republican takeover of the New York State Senate.
They were alone and unarmed in hostile territory without even having the reassurance of radio communications.
Both had been accused of acts hostile to the North Korean state.
He obeyed without remark, though with an unsteady voice, as he uttered communications he knew were so hostile to her expectation.
We met like hostile bulls, and wonder not that we should plunge at once upon each other's horns!
He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.
Then affairs almost reached the point where the province was in hostile array, one side against another.
She knew that Alessandro had no knife, and had gone forward with no hostile intent; but she knew nothing beyond that.