bust-up takeover

1. 1.

   a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover

   Broaderleveraged buyout

Questions about bust-up takeover

What does bust-up takeover mean?

bust-up takeover means "a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover".

Is bust-up takeover a common word?

bust-up takeover 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.