Usually means: Strategy to prevent hostile takeovers.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word poison pill:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. poison pill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poison pill: Merriam-Webster
  3. poison pill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poison pill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poison pill: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poison pill: Vocabulary.com
  7. poison-pill: Wordnik
  8. poison pill: Wiktionary
  9. poison pill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. poison pill: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. poison pill: Dictionary.com
  12. Poison pill (NBA), Poison pill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. poison pill: Rhymezone
  14. poison pill: FreeDictionary.org
  15. poison pill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. poison-pill, poison pill: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. poison pill: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Poison pill: bizterms.net
  7. Poison pill: Moneyterms
  8. Poison Pill: Investopedia
  9. Poison Pill, poison-pill: Legal dictionary
  10. Poison Pill, poison-pill: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poison pill: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poison Pill: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See poison_pills as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (poison pill)

noun:  (business) Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.
noun:  (politics) A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, pill.

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