Usually means: Acquisition of control over company.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. takeover: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. takeover: Merriam-Webster
  3. takeover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. takeover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. takeover: Collins English Dictionary
  6. takeover: Vocabulary.com
  7. Takeover, takeover: Wordnik
  8. takeover: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. takeover: Wiktionary
  10. takeover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. takeover (take-over): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. takeover: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. takeover: Dictionary.com
  14. takeover (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. takeover: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Takeover (disambiguation), Takeover (film), Takeover (song), Takeover, The Takeover (Zion I album), The Takeover (album), The Takeover (film), The Takeover (novel), The Takeover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. takeover: Rhymezone
  18. takeover: FreeDictionary.org
  19. takeover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. takeover: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. takeover: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. takeover: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. takeover: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. TAKEOVER: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Takeover: bizterms.net
  8. Takeover: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Takeover: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  10. takeover: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Takeover: Management Dictionary
  12. Takeover: Investopedia
  13. takeover: Legal dictionary
  14. Takeover: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. takeover: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (economics) 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.
noun:  (economics, UK) The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
noun:  A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
verb:  Alternative form of take over [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.]

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