poison pill

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   the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer

   Broadershark repellent

   Narrowersuicide pill

Questions about poison pill

What does poison pill mean?

poison pill means "the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer".

Is poison pill a common word?

poison pill 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.