any-and-all bid

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   a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to buy any and all shares outstanding

   Broadertakeover bid

Questions about any-and-all bid

What does any-and-all bid mean?

any-and-all bid means "a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to buy any and all shares outstanding".

Is any-and-all bid a common word?

any-and-all bid 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.