What is the difference between takeover and merger?
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(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.
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The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
(economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
(legal) An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
(linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
In economics terms the difference between takeover and merger
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 merger is the legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.takeover
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(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
*merger
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(wikipedia merger)Noun
(en noun)- ''Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
- the cot-caught merger