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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hostile takeover" is correct, and it is commonly used in written English.
It usually refers to a corporate takeover in which the acquiring company uses aggressive tactics, such as a public offer to buy the target company's shares, in order to gain control without the approval of the target company's board of directors. For example: "The company's board of directors is currently engaged in a battle to fend off a hostile takeover from an aggressive rival firm."
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hostile takeover
noun
An attempted takeover of a company that is strongly resisted by the target company's management.
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This is a hostile takeover with little rationale, and even less hostility.
A HOSTILE takeover in France?
Others saw in it a hostile takeover.
McCourt called that a hostile takeover.
This is most obvious in a hostile takeover.
So how can a merger happen in a hostile takeover?
Think of Vodafone's hostile takeover of Germany's Mannesmann last year.
"This island is enduring a hostile takeover," she said.
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"I'm not a hostile-takeover kind of guy," Jobs told the Times.
For wallet-emptying ingenuity, however, there is little to beat hostile-takeover insurance.
Could Microsoft already be rethinking its hostile-takeover strategy?
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