When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.
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Takeover
Synonyms for "takeover" (20 found)
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Related words (10)
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14 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 15 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- oorname noun (the purchase of a private company)
- oorname noun (the purchase of a public company)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 兼併 /兼并 noun (the purchase of a private company)
Czech
1 entries- převzetí noun (the purchase of a private company)
Danish
3 entries- opkøb noun (the purchase of a public company)
- overtagelse noun (the purchase of a private company)
- overtagelse noun (transfer of control)
Finnish
4 entries- haltuunotto noun (transfer of control)
- valtaus noun (the purchase of a private company)
- yritysosto noun (the purchase of a private company)
- yritysosto noun (the purchase of a public company)
French
2 entries- acquisition noun (the purchase of a private company)
- prise de contrôle noun (the purchase of a private company)
German
2 entries- Geschäftsübernahme noun (the purchase of a private company)
- Übernahme noun (the purchase of a private company)
Japanese
2 entries- 乗っ取り noun (the purchase of a private company)
- 買収 noun (the purchase of a private company)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- overtagelse noun (the purchase of a private company)
- overtagelse noun (the purchase of a public company)
- overtagelse noun (transfer of control)
- overtakelse noun (the purchase of a private company)
Polish
4 entries- akwizycja noun (the purchase of a private company)
- akwizycja noun (the purchase of a public company)
- przejęcie noun (the purchase of a private company)
- przejęcie noun (the purchase of a public company)
Portuguese
1 entries- aquisição noun (the purchase of a private company)
Russian
2 entries- поглоще́ние noun (the purchase of a private company)
- приобрете́ние noun (the purchase of a private company)
Slovak
2 entries- prevzatie noun (the purchase of a private company)
- prevzatie noun (transfer of control)
Turkish
1 entries- devir noun (the purchase of a private company)
Ukrainian
1 entries- поглинання noun (the purchase of a private company)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.
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Predictably, after Elon Musk's takeover, Twitter was flooded with Nazi spam.
Source: tatoeba (11213237)
Elon Musk's far-right takeover of Twitter has been a bigger disaster than anyone anticipated.
Source: tatoeba (11267119)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.