anti-takeover defense

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   resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover

   Broaderresistance

Questions about anti-takeover defense

What does anti-takeover defense mean?

anti-takeover defense means "resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover".

Is anti-takeover defense a common word?

anti-takeover defense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.