| 单词 | poison pill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoison pill poison pill n. (a) a pill containing poison, esp. one taken in order to commit suicide; also figurative; (b) Business (originally U.S.), any of a number of ploys (such as a conditional rights issue) adopted by the victim of an unwelcome takeover bid to make itself unattractive to the bidder. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > pill, chiefly for suicide poison pill1653 society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable poison pill1653 rig1826 cornering1841 wash-sale1848 washing1849 market-rigging1851 corner1853 watering1868 wreck1876 manipulation1888 wash1891 market mongering1901 matched orders1903 grey market1933 bond washing1937 warehousing1971 bed-and-breakfasting1974 dawn raid1980 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 78. 610 Mounsieur Prick-lowse is much afraid; That in his absence some wicked Person gave her a poison Pill, which might occasion her swelling. 1835 W. L. Rede Affair of Honour v. 17 Perhaps I haven't swallowed the poison pill after all. 1906 B. Stoker Personal Reminisc. Henry Irving xlii. 371 I had always a poison pill fastened here, where the lappet of my coat now is. 1975 Times 29 Aug. 6/8 There are many organizations working against Mrs Gandhi... Ours is serious... We all carry poison pills in our pockets. 1976 Times 1 Sept. 13/4 To sugar coat the poison pill administered to a gullible public. 1983 N.Y. Times 19 June iii. 14/4 Lenox played hard to get..and implemented a novel anti-takeover devise [sic] to discourage Brown–Forman Distillers takeover bid. The move is called the ‘Poison Pill defense’. 2001 D. Lebaron & R. Vaitlingham in S. Crainer & D. Dearlove Financial Times Handbk. Managem. (ed. 2) 512 Senior executives may use such bizarre devices as ‘shark repellents’ and ‘poison pills’, which make it extremely costly for shareholders to replace the incumbent board of directors. < as lemmas |
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