two-tier bid

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   a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to pay more for the shares needed to gain control than for the remaining shares

   Broadertakeover bid

Questions about two-tier bid

What does two-tier bid mean?

two-tier bid means "a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to pay more for the shares needed to gain control than for the remaining shares".

Is two-tier bid a common word?

two-tier 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.