white knight

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   a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover

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Questions about white knight

What does white knight mean?

white knight means "a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover".

Is white knight a common word?

white knight 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.