buyoutnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbaɪ.aʊt/us/ˈbaɪ.aʊt/(in business) a situation in which a person or group buys all the shares belonging to a company and so gets control of it:
a management buyout
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Mergers & acquisitions
- absorb
- acquisitive
- amalgamation
- buy into sth
- buy sb out
- denationalize
- hive
- leverage
- merger
- monopolize
- monopoly
- oligopoly
- parent
- spin
- subsidiary
- suitor
- syndicate
- take (sth) over
- takeover
- white knight
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