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hostile takeover
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hostile takeover has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
hostile takeover, n.
the purchase of a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management.
"A person who is the main principal in performing such a buyout is called a corporate raider ."
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