takeover bid

1. 1.

   an offer to buy shares in order to take over the company

   Broadertender offer

   Narrowertwo-tier bidany-and-all bid

Questions about takeover bid

What does takeover bid mean?

takeover bid means "an offer to buy shares in order to take over the company".

Is takeover bid a common word?

takeover bid 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.