Takeover vs Grab - What's the difference?
takeover | grab |
(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= 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 grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
* , chapter=7
, title= To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
To restrain someone; to arrest.
To grip the attention; to enthrall.
(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
* 1987 James Grady Just a Shot Away , Bantam, p117
* 1999 Jillian Dagg, Racing Hearts, Thomas Bouregy & Co., p105
* 2009 Mike Taylor, A Thousand Sleeps, Tate Publishing, p216
(informal) To consume something quickly.
To take the opportunity of.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 19, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC Sport
, title= a sudden snatch (for something)
* 1931 Harold M. Sherman, "The Baseball Clown," Boys' Life, Vol. 21, No. 4 (April 1931), Boy Scouts of America, p47
* 2003 J Davey, Six Years of Darkness, Trafford Publishing, p66
a mechanical device that grabs or clutches
# a device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven
(media) a soundbite
As nouns the difference between takeover and grab
is that 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 while grab is grave.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.
Derived terms
*hostile takeoverSee also
* buyout * merger * selloutAnagrams
*grab
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(grabb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- "I'll just grab my jacket," said Manh-Hung.
- Hardly believing that Rafe actually planned to relax for a while, Kate nodded. "All right. Fine. I'll just go grab my purse."
- He looked at Albert and Ben, and then back to Nurse Allen. "I'll just grab my gear and be right back."
Blackpool 1-2 West Ham, passage=Both teams wasted good opportunities to score but it was the London side who did grab what proved to be the decisive third when the unmarked Vaz Te, a January signing from Barnsley, drilled the ball into the net from 12 yards.}}
Noun
(en noun)- The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.
- He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.