Usually means: Acquisition of control over company.
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  1. takeover: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. takeover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. takeover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. takeover: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Takeover, takeover: Wordnik
  7. takeover: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. takeover: Wiktionary
  9. takeover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. takeover (take-over): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. takeover: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. takeover (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. takeover: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Takeover (disambiguation), Takeover (film), Takeover (song), Takeover, The Takeover (Zion I album), The Takeover (album), The Takeover (film), The Takeover (novel), The Takeover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  17. takeover: Free Dictionary
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  20. takeover: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  2. takeover: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. TAKEOVER: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Takeover: bizterms.net
  7. Takeover: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Takeover: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
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  10. Takeover: Management Dictionary
  11. Takeover: Investopedia
  12. takeover: Legal dictionary
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  1. takeover: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
noun:  (economics, UK) The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
noun:  A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
verb:  Alternative form of take over [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.]

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