Meaning

4 senses
  1. 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.

    Geschäftsübernahme, Übernahme

    поглоще́ниеpogloščénije, приобрете́ниеpriobreténije

    поглинанняpohlynannja

  2. (UK)The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.

  3. A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.

  4. (slang)An event at which teens gather in public and act out; a street takeover.

More definitions
  • a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation
  • a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

Examples

5 sentences
  1. It's not a judicial reform; it's a judicial takeover.

    deDas ist keine Gerichtsreform, es ist eine Gerichtsübernahme. — Yorwba

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  2. Predictably, after Elon Musk's takeover, Twitter was flooded with Nazi spam.

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  3. Elon Musk's far-right takeover of Twitter has been a bigger disaster than anyone anticipated.

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  4. We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.

    deWir, ACME GmbH, verkünden hiermit, dass wir uns mit aller Macht gegen diese feindliche Übernahme stemmen werden. — Yorwba

  5. Examples of plutocrats buying media that oppose them include the recent far-right takeovers of CNN, Newsweek, and Twitter.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the purchase of a private company:
Русский
By meaning 1
the purchase of a private company:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the purchase of a private company:

Origin

Deverbal from take over.

Deverbal from take over.

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