Buyout vs Acquire - What's the difference?
buyout | acquire |
(finance) The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
To get.
To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
As a noun buyout
is (finance) the acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.As a verb acquire is
to get.buyout
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Alternative forms
* buy-outNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* leveraged buyout * management buyoutSee also
* merger * sellout * takeover ----acquire
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Verb
(acquir)- No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
- Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
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