Usually means: Rescuer intervening in others' conflicts.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word white knight:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. white knight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. white knight: Merriam-Webster
  3. white knight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. white knight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. white knight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. white knight: Vocabulary.com
  7. white-knight: Wordnik
  8. white knight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. white knight: Wiktionary
  10. white knight: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. white knight: Dictionary.com
  12. The White Knight (Cledus Maggard song), The White Knight (book), White Knight (Documentary), White Knight (Fitzgibbon family), White Knight (Through the Looking-Glass), White Knight (album), White Knight (chocolate), White Knight (film), White knight (business), White knight (intelligence firm), White knight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. white knight: Rhymezone
  14. white knight: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. white knight: FreeDictionary.org
  16. white knight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. white knight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. white knight: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. WHITE KNIGHT: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. White knight: bizterms.net
  7. White knight: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. White knight: Moneyterms
  9. White knight: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  10. white knight: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. White Knight: Management Dictionary
  12. White Knight: Investopedia
  13. The White Knight, White Knight: Financial dictionary
  14. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The White Knight, White Knight: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. white knight: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See white_knighting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (white knight)

noun:  (business) An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
noun:  (fiction) A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
noun:  (figurative, derogatory) Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
noun:  (informal, derogatory, Internet) A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.
noun:  A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
verb:  (figurative, derogatory) To unnecessarily defend someone, especially in an attempt to gain favour.

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