suicide pill

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   a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect

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Questions about suicide pill

What does suicide pill mean?

suicide pill means "a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect".

Is suicide pill a common word?

suicide 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.