pac-man strategy

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   the target company defends itself by threatening to take over its acquirer

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Questions about pac-man strategy

What does pac-man strategy mean?

pac-man strategy means "the target company defends itself by threatening to take over its acquirer".

Is pac-man strategy a common word?

pac-man strategy 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.