takeover bid
Business
noun
An offer made to the shareholders of a company to buy their shares at a specified price, in order to gain control of that company; (in extended use) an attempt to seize power or control.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The Times.
- pitch line
- pitchman
- pitch mark
- pitch meter
- pitch-notation
- pitch note
- pitch of the ball
- pitch-oil
- pitch opal
- pitchout
- pitch-penny
- pitch-perfect
- pitch phoneme
- pitch pine
- pitch pipe
- pitch-plaster
- pitch point
- pitchpole
- pitch polisher
- pitch pot
- pitch shifter
- pitch shot
- pitchside
- pitch someone/thing against
- pitch something up (or pitch up)