hostile takeover

1. 1.

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

   Broadertakeover

Questions about hostile takeover

What does hostile takeover mean?

hostile takeover means "a takeover that is resisted by the management of the target company".

Is hostile takeover a common word?

hostile 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.