friendly takeover

1. 1.

   a takeover that is welcomed by the management of the target company

   Broadertakeover

Questions about friendly takeover

What does friendly takeover mean?

friendly takeover means "a takeover that is welcomed by the management of the target company".

Is friendly takeover a common word?

friendly 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.