scorched-earth policy

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   the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels

   Broadershark repellent

Questions about scorched-earth policy

What does scorched-earth policy mean?

scorched-earth policy means "the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels".

Is scorched-earth policy a common word?

scorched-earth policy 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.