Noun

(en noun)

A fixture or attachment intended to prevent direct contact between two objects.

The ladder holdoff enabled him to clean the gutters easily without the ladder's weight damaging them.

A delay or forebearance.

There was a three-month holdoff in the decision.

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.