POISON PILL

Meaning of POISON PILL in English

noun

( informal , business ) a form of defence used by a company to prevent, or to reduce the effect of, a takeover bid that they do not want, for example by selling some of their important possessions

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POISON PILL — noun Date: 1983 a financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted takeover prohibitively expensive or …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
POISON PILL — noun : a financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted take-over prohibitively expensive or less …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
POISON PILL — 1. a pellet of a quick-acting poison, as cyanide, for a spy to carry in order to commit suicide when …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
POISON PILL — Date: 1983 : a financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted takeover prohibitively expensive or …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
POISON PILL — Function: noun Date: 1983 : a financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted takeover prohibitively …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
POISON PILL — ■ noun Finance a tactic used by a company threatened with an unwelcome takeover bid to make itself unattractive to …
Concise Oxford English vocab
POISON PILL — [poison pill] n (1983): a financial tactic (as increasing indebtedness) used by a company to deter an unwanted takeover
Merriam-Webster English vocab
POISON PILL — ˌpoison ˈpill BrE AmE noun [countable] technical informal something in a company’s financial or legal structure that is intended to …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
POISON PILL — ( poison pills) A poison pill refers to what some companies do to reduce their value in order to prevent …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
POISON PILL — A ~ refers to what some companies do to reduce their value in order to prevent themselves being taken over …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
POISON PILL — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And a firm's environmental history has emerged as another potential poison pill no-one wants to …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
POISON PILL — Anti- takeover device that gives a prospective acquiree's shareholders the right to buy shares of the firm or shares of …
Hypertextual Finance English Glossary
POISON PILL — defence measures installed by companies to prevent hostile takeover e.g. high management redundancy payoffs written into contracts.
Raynet Business and Marketing English Glossary
POISON PILL — noun (Business World) Any of a number of ploys (such as a conditional rights issue) which may be adopted by …
Английский разговорный словарь - Новые слова
POISON PILL — "отравленная пилюля", защитная мера со стороны компании, которой грозит поглощение
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике и финансам
POISON PILL — фин. "ядовитая пилюля", "отравленная таблетка" (любые методы борьбы с враждебным поглощением компании; в случае попытки враждебного поглощения компания-цель может принять …
Новый Англо-Русский толковый словарь по финансовому менеджменту
POISON — I Any substance (natural or synthetic) that, at a certain dosage, damages living tissues and injures or kills. Poisons spontaneously …
Английский словарь Британика
POISON — I. ˈpȯiz ə n, dial ˈpīz- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English poisoun, poison, from Old French poison drink, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PILL — I. ˈpil noun ( -s ) Etymology: earlier pille, from (assumed) Middle English, from Old English pyll, alteration of pull …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
POISON — — poisoner , n. — poisonless , adj. — poisonlessness , n. /poy"zeuhn/ , n. 1. a substance with an …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PILL — pill 1 /pil/ , n. 1. a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
POISON — I. ˈpȯi-z ə n noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French poisun drink, potion, poison, from Latin potion-, potio drink — …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PILL — I. ˈpil verb Etymology: Middle English pilen, pillen, partly from Old English pilian to peel, partly from Anglo-French piler to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
POISON — vi to act as, or convey, a poison. 2. poison ·noun to injure or kill by poison; to administer poison …
Webster English vocab
PILL — noun the peel or skin. 2. pill ·vt to deprive of hair; to make bald. 3. pill ·vi to be …
Webster English vocab
POISON — [poi.son] n [ME, fr. MF, drink, poisonous drink, poison, fr. L potion-, potio drink--more at potion] (13c) 1 a: a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PILL — [pill] vb [ME pilen, pillen, partly fr. OE pilian to peel, partly fr. MF piller to plunder] vi (12c) dial …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
POISON — poison BrE AmE ˈpɔɪz ə n ▷ poison|ed d ▷ poison|ing ‿ɪŋ ▷ poison|s z ▶ ˌ poison ˈ gas, …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
POISON — / ˈpɔɪzn; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun [ C , U ] 1. a substance that causes death …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PILL — / pɪl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a small flat round piece of medicine …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
POISON — I. poi ‧ son 1 /ˈpɔɪz ə n/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PILL — I. pill 1 S3 /pɪl/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: pilula , from pila …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
POISON — n. & v. --n. 1 a substance that when introduced into or absorbed by a living organism causes death or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PILL — n. 1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
POISON — n. & v. n. 1 a substance that when introduced into or absorbed by a living organism causes death or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PILL — n. 1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
POISON — n. & v. --n. 1. a substance that when introduced into or absorbed by a living organism causes death or …
Oxford English vocab
PILL — n.1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by the) …
Oxford English vocab
POISON — ( poisons, poisoning, poisoned) 1. Poison is a substance that harms or kills people or animals if they swallow it …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PILL — ( pills) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Pills are small solid …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
POISON
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PILL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES morning-after pill pep pill poison pill sleeping pill COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE bitter …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
POISON — [verb] [T]To poison a person or animal is to kill them or make them very ill by giving them poison.Four …
Cambridge English vocab
PILL — [noun] [C] - a small solid piece of medicine which a person swallows in one piece; a tableta sleeping pillMy …
Cambridge English vocab
POISON — n. poison hemlock poison ivy poison oak poison sumac poison elder blood poisoning arsenic poisoning drug poisoning medicinal poisoning fish …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PILL — PILL, or PEELE GARLICK. Said originally to mean one whose skin or hair had fallen off from some disease, chiefly …
Slang English vocab
PILL — noun 1 medicine ADJECTIVE ▪ diet , sleeping , vitamin ▪ prescription ( esp. AmE ) … OF PILLS ▪ bottle …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
POISON — n. 25B6; noun a deadly poison : TOXIN, toxicant, venom; archaic bane. See lists. Marianne would spread her poison : …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PILL — n. 1 tablet, capsule, bolus, pellet, pilule; medicine, medication, medicament, drug, pharmaceutical, remedy, cure; cough drop, pastille, lozenge, troche Doctor, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
POISON — 1. сущ. 1) яд, отрава тж. перен. powerful poison ≈ сильный яд rat poison ≈ крысиный яд The poison of …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PILL — I 1. сущ. 1) а) пилюля, таблетка б) (the Pill) противозачаточные таблетки в) перен. нечто горькое, неприятное (что необходимо сделать, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
POISON — poison.ogg 1. ʹpɔız(ə)n n 1. 1> яд; отрава poison flour - белый мышьяк to take poison - принять яд 2> …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PILL — pill.ogg _I 1. pıl n 1. 1> пилюля; таблетка to take a pill - а) принять пилюлю /таблетку/; б) разг. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
POISON — 1) яд, ядовитое вещество; токсин 2) отравлять 3) поглотитель ( нейтронов ) • - burnable poison - catalyst poison - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
POISON — 1) яд, ядовитое вещество; токсин 2) отравлять 3) поглотитель (нейтронов) • - burnable poison - catalyst poison - electrode poison - electrolysis poison - environmental poison - permanent poison - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
POISON — 1) вредная примесь 2) отрава 3) отравлять 4) яд 5) ядовитый • burnable poison rod — машиностр. стержень с выгорающим поглотителем complex action poison — яд комплексного …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
PILL — I pill сущ.1) а) пилюля, таблетка б) ( the Pill) противозачаточные таблетки в) перен. нечто горькое, неприятное (что необходимо сделать, …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
POISON — 1. ʹpɔız(ə)n n 1. 1> яд; отрава poison flour - белый мышьяк to take poison - принять яд 2> пагубное …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PILL — _I 1. pıl n 1. 1> пилюля; таблетка to take a pill - а) принять пилюлю /таблетку/; б) разг. принять …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
POISON — 1. сущ. 1) яд, отрава тж. перен. powerful poison — сильный яд rat poison — крысиный яд The poison of …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
PILL — I pɪl 1. сущ. 1) а) пилюля, таблетка б) ( the Pill ) противозачаточные таблетки в) перен. нечто горькое, неприятное …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
POISON — 1. сущ. 1) яд, отрава тж. перен. powerful poison — сильный яд rat poison — крысиный яд The poison of seditious doctrines. — Отрава …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
PILL — I [ЈЎ®] pill.wav 1. сущ. 1) а) пилюля, таблетка б) (the Pill) противозачаточные таблетки в) перен. нечто горькое, неприятное (что необходимо сделать, пережить и т. …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
POISON — яд - contact poison - digestive poison - fish poison - mitotic poison - systemic poison
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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