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  • noun Alternative spelling of buyout.

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Examples

  • Since Madison Dearborn, a US investor, is known as a buy-out specialist, that sparked interest.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • In Sunday's Washington Post, columnist Steve Pearlstein wrote about Yahoo! and the governmental pressures brought by FTC rulings on Google's alleged monopoly Google's buy-out attempt of Yahoo! was rejected and earlier Justice Department antitrust inquiries vis-à-vis Microsoft.

    Mike Smith: Yahoo! Tracks Internet Ads Using Biometrics Mike Smith 2011

  • After a wave of accusations against Chinese companies by short-sellers, the shares of some have rebounded after internal investigations found no wrongdoing or after they received buy-out offers from investors.

    Embattled Sino-Forest Fights Back Against Muddy Waters Duncan Mavin 2011

  • The left is cheering a study commissioned by the Census Bureau that found that companies bought by private-equity firms suffer more job losses soon after a buy-out than similar firms that didn't experience buy-outs.

    The Bain Capital Bonfire 2012

  • Earlier this month, a person familiar with the situation said Vodafone's $5 billion buy-out of its Indian partner in the venture would pave the way to a possible initial public offering of stock in Vodafone's Indian operations.

    Vodafone May Consider IPO in 9-12 Months Kenan Machado of Dow Jones Newswires 2011

  • "The clauses in my contract are between me and the club," he says simply – but he secured a buy-out clause understood to be in the region of £20m.

    I'm happy but I won't swear eternal love to anyone, says Pepe Reina 2011

  • Liverpool supporters will, however, be naturally suspicious of any US bid after the bitter experience with Hicks's and Gillett's "leveraged buy-out".

    Liverpool civil war erupts as owners reject two buyers David Conn 2010

  • In Sunday's Washington Post, columnist Steve Pearlstein wrote about Yahoo! and the governmental pressures brought by FTC rulings on Google's alleged monopoly Google's buy-out attempt of Yahoo! was rejected and earlier Justice Department antitrust inquiries vis-Ã-vis Microsoft.

    Mike Smith: Yahoo! Tracks Internet Ads Using Biometrics Mike Smith 2011

  • However, in 2006 I sold the other just after the market had peaked, took early retiremtment with a buy-out bonus to leave the workforce in my early fifties and now live here in Mexico.

    US vs. Mexican culture 2009

  • In Sunday's Washington Post, columnist Steve Pearlstein wrote about Yahoo! and the governmental pressures brought by FTC rulings on Google's alleged monopoly Google's buy-out attempt of Yahoo! was rejected and earlier Justice Department antitrust inquiries vis-à-vis Microsoft.

    Mike Smith: Yahoo! Tracks Internet Ads Using Biometrics Mike Smith 2011

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