Outsource vs Takeover - What's the difference?
outsource | takeover |
(chiefly, US, business, management) To transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
(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.
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, title= 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:
As a verb outsource
is (chiefly|us|business|management) to transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.As a noun takeover is
(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.outsource
English
(Outsourcing)Verb
(outsourc)- They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.
Synonyms
* farm out, subcontractDerived terms
* outsourceable * outsourcerAnagrams
*takeover
English
Noun
(wikipedia takeover) (en noun)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.}}
- 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.