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• A corporate takeover of this project is likely to alienate the user base.From the entry user base
• The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.From the entry zero
• The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.From the entry inside
• The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.From the entry conclusion
• As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.From the entry add insult to injury
• The company preannounced the impending takeover.From the entry preannounce
• But this is no takeover: the call is coming from inside the house.2021 December 14, Paul Elliott Johnson, I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States, University of Alabama…. From the entry the call is coming from inside the house
• The evening was a full dyke takeover thrown by two women, Cass Bugge and Molly Schiot.2019, Jill Solloway, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy, page 97. From the entry doppelbanger
• Captain Drax is tribute to the Faragist takeover of the Tory Party.2018, Will Hutton, Andrew Adonis, Saving Britain: How We Must Change to Prosper in Europe. From the entry Faragist
• A few widely publicized companies set up ESOPs purely as defenses against hostile takeovers.2016 September 8, John Case, “The Life-Changing Magic of Turning Employees Into Shareholders”, in The Atlantic. From the entry ESOP
• South Africa's Woolworths Holdings Ltd. is pursuing Aussie retailer DJs, and DJs badly wants the takeover.2014 July 9, Ronald Barusch, “Dealpolitik: David Jones Deal Highlights Power of Shareholders in Australia”, in The Wall Street Journal…. From the entry DJs
• Britain's open-door policy on foreign takeovers is a net gain for the economy.2012 October 29, “Editorial: Protectionism is not the answer, Lord Heseltine”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 15 Jan 2016. From the entry open-door policy
• Leveraged buyout funds are behind the dramatic growth in high-yield debt—the preferred financing for today's corporate takeovers.2007 November 20, Diana Farrell, “Private Equity Isn't Fading Away”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 29 Jan 2010. From the entry leveraged buyout
• Their subject — hostile corporate takeovers — seems far from cyberprivacy, but it is not.2007 December 23, Christopher Caldwell, “Intimate Shopping”, in New York Times. From the entry cyberprivacy
• Even outside the Anglo-Saxon world, underperforming public companies have become vulnerable to hostile takeover.2002, Robert M. Grant, Contemporary Strategy Analysis: Concepts, Techniques, Applications, page 40. From the entry underperform
• "Any underperformer in this business is vulnerable as a takeover," Raiff said.1986 June 24, Donna Stef Hansard, “Lord & Taylor Parent Firm Undecided About May Offer”, in Dallas News, archived from the original on 07…. From the entry underperformer
• Teng left China just before the Red takeover to come to this country.1963 December 18, Chinatown News, page 12. From the entry red
• The Betaville blog wrote earlier this week about market speculation that Adevinta was attracting takeover interest, without naming the suitors.2023 September 21, Silas Brown, Dinesh Nair, Swetha Gopinath, “Blackstone, Permira Explore Bid for eBay-Backed Adevinta”, in Bloomberg.com. From the entry suitor
• Pranksters fooled some media members into thinking they'd been laid off by Elon Musk soon after his Twitter takeover.2022 October 28, Tim Marcin, “Pranksters fool some media members after Elon Musk's Twitter takeover”, in Mashable, archived from the…. From the entry prankster
• While some koinons were formed by a military takeover by a dominant community, most were voluntary associations between geographically contiguous communities.2020, Robert Inman, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, “Cooperative Federalism”, in Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal…. From the entry koinon
• She can't wait to fire us all after the takeover."2011, Jeri Smith-Ready, Urban Fantasy Collection - Vampires: A Rush of Wings, ..., Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 837. From the entry screwery
• DOGE officials reportedly referenced this takeover in their conversations with Vera, citing USIP as an example of a successful federal intervention into nonprofit affairs.2025 April 17, Zane McNeill, “DOGE Aims to Embed Agents in All Nonprofits That Receive Federal Funds”, in Truthout, archived from the…. From the entry USIP
• But one of the leaders, Maj Gen Sibusiso Moyo, appeared on television at the time, flatly denying it was a military takeover.2023 August 30, “Gabon coup: The latest in a serious of military takeovers on the continent”, in BBC. From the entry flatly
• The takeover has provided the stability, I believe, to remove any fears over the positions of the likes of Torres and Reina.2010 October 30, Andy Hunter, “Liverpool owner says Fernando Torres and José Reina are going nowhere”, in The Guardian. From the entry likes
• The study also concludes that there is no indication that poison pills reduce the chance that a company will become a takeover target.2003, Donald DePamphilis, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry poison pill
• In contrast, if investors viewed the introduction of the poison pill as deterring potential takeover attempts, the effect on shareholder returns would be negative.2003, Donald DePamphilis, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry poison pill
• You can think of Musk's acquisition of Twitter as the latest sortie, a takeover of the ultimate wordcel site by the world's most successful shape rotator.2023 January 5, “Tesla suffers from the boss’s fixation on Twitter”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post…. From the entry wordcel
• With the proliferation of the new practice of wolf packing, the incidence of Toehold ("TH" collaborations as part of a takeover campaign is likely to increase as well.2017, Mira Ganor, “Toehold Collaborations Beyond Insider Trading”, in NYUJL & Bus., volume 14, HeinOnline, →DOI. From the entry wolf packing
• There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples!2009 April 14, jamie powell, “Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'”, in uk.tech.digital-tv (Usenet). From the entry simples
• About twice as many "bandits" were killed during this guerrilla war (twelve thousand) as during the five- month Japanese campaign to secure their takeover of the island.2003, Denny Roy, “The Japanese Occupation”, in Taiwan: A Political History, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35. From the entry Yun-lin
• The publisher of Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner promises to stem his paper’s criticism of Mayor Willie Brown if Hizzoner doesn’t oppose Hearst's takeover of the rival Chronicle.2001, Gene Roberts et al., editors, Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering, The University of Arkansas Press, page 7. From the entry hizzoner
• Its objectives include expanding America's military might, alarmistically publicizing the Soviet Union's growing military threat, and perhaps preparing the way for a military takeover of the federal civilian government.1972, Warren Freedman, Cary Stewart Sklaren, Contemporary Social Problems: Selected Readings in Sociology and the Law, Charles C Thomas…. From the entry alarmistically

Meaning of takeover

1. noun 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.
2. noun The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
3. noun A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.

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Questions about takeover in a sentence

How do you use takeover in a sentence?

Takeover is used as a noun. For example: “A corporate takeover of this project is likely to alienate the user base.”

What is a short sentence with takeover?

“The company preannounced the impending takeover.”

What does takeover mean?

Takeover means 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.