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Conquer vs Takeover - What's the difference?

conquer | takeover |

As a verb conquer

is to defeat in combat; to subjugate.

As a noun takeover is

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.

conquer

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms.
  • To overcome an abstract obstacle.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • By winning words to conquer hearts, / And make persuasion do the work of fear.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
  • To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
  • To acquire by force of arms, win in war.
  • Derived terms

    * conquerable * unconquerable * conqueror * conquest

    takeover

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia takeover) (en noun)
  • (label) 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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Turn it off , passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}
  • The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
  • A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
  • *1991 , Information Services on Latin America (Oakland, Calif.), ISLA: Volume 43, Issues 1-3 , p. 195:
  • Revollo was absent when Bolivian police and the navy captain arrived at dawn, and the base takeover came off without problems, according to a U.S. narcotics official.

    Derived terms

    *hostile takeover

    See also

    * buyout * merger * sellout

    Anagrams

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