Takeover vs Overtake - What's the difference?
takeover | overtake |
(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:
To pass a more slowly moving object.
To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.
(economics) To become greater than something else
To occur unexpectedly
Overtake is a anagram of takeover.
In economics terms the difference between takeover and overtake
is that 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 while overtake is to become greater than something else.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.As a verb overtake is
to pass a more slowly moving object.takeover
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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.
Derived terms
*hostile takeoverSee also
* buyout * merger * selloutAnagrams
*overtake
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Verb
- "I overtook' and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." '''1898 ,
- "Our plans were overtaken by events."