porcupine provision

1. 1.

   a measure undertaken by a corporation to discourage unwanted takeover attempts

   Synonymsshark repellent

   Broadermeasure

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Questions about porcupine provision

What does porcupine provision mean?

porcupine provision means "a measure undertaken by a corporation to discourage unwanted takeover attempts".

What is another word for porcupine provision?

Close synonyms include shark repellent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is porcupine provision a common word?

porcupine provision 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.