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What is a takeover?

What is a takeover? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (economics) 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. (economics) The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
  3. 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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With the rightist military takeover, all ideas of tax reform were abandoned.
Over one million landless peasants are fighting for land rights and against a military takeover in the largest province of Punjab.
He stepped into a takeover battle as a white knight and emerged as majority owner of an old and underperforming mine in Ontario.
Disguised in the legal language is a set of rules to facilitate the corporate takeover of global services.
And only the historians would be able to determine whether it was an acquisition, a merger or a reverse takeover.
A potential acquirer who outbids a white knight in an unfriendly takeover attempt.

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