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DictionarySeetakeoutIdiomsSeetake outTake-no-Nobori Také-no-NoboriSunday near July 15The origins of this rain festival go back to 1504, a year in which there was no rain all summer in what is now the Nagano Prefecture of Japan. Villagers appealed to their god and were rewarded with three days of rain in a row. Thankful, they made an offering to the god of two especially fine pieces of cloth, sufficient to make two kimonos. Today people in Uedo City continue this tradition each year on a Sunday near July 15. People trek up to the shrine on Mount Ogamidake and offer pieces of homemade cloth to the god. CONTACTS: City of Uedo, Convention Bureau 1-11-16, Ote Ueda-shi, Nagano Prefecture 386-8601 Japan 81-2-6822-4100; fax: 81-2-6822-6023 www.city.ueda.nagano.jp/hp/English/index.html SOURCES: IllFestJapan-1993, p. 103 JapanFest-1965, p. 167
Take-out
Take-outA cash surplus generated by the sale of one block of securities and the purchase of another, e.g., selling a block of bonds at 99 and buying another block at 95. Also, a bid made to a seller of a security that is designed (and generally agreed) to take the seller out of the market.Takeout1. Informal; to borrow.
2. Extra cash that an investor derives when he/she sells a position and then buys a similar position for a lower price.
3. To make a bid for the entirety of a security that a seller owns.
4. Informal for a merger or acquisition. The term comes from another informal term, "in play," which refers to a company either soliciting offers for a buy-out or vulnerable to a hostile takeover. A takeout means that the company involved as been "taken out of play." |