Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The purchase of the entire holdings or interests of an owner or investor.
- noun The purchase of a company or business.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Business, Finance) the acquisition of ownership of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun finance The
acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outrightpurchase or by purchase of a majority of issuedshares ofstock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock
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Examples
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These owners are either estatic over their good fortune or fearing that the details of the buyout is about to bring them down too.
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Forstmann was a pioneer, a genius in business and a man that changed and coined the phrase "buyout".
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The lump sum he took from the buyout is gone, Shales says Thursday night, on the phone from his house in McLean.
Tom Shales: I'm Leaving Washington Post, Am Heavily In Debt Jack Mirkinson 2010
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At age 36, Amanda surprised the food world when she took a buyout from the Times in order to start her own internet venture: www. food52.com.
Edible: Edible Radio Episode 56: Kitchen Sync with Amanda Hesser Edible 2010
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With an enterprise value of $10.5 billion, a buyout is quite digestible by pharma's bigger players.
Ride The Takeover Wave John W. Rogers Jr. 2010
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O'Brien objected, and eventually accepted a buyout from the network to leave.
Steve Burke to Replace Jeff Zucker as NBC Universal CEO 2010
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At age 36, Amanda surprised the food world when she took a buyout from the Times in order to start her own internet venture: www. food52.com.
Edible: Edible Radio Episode 56: Kitchen Sync with Amanda Hesser Edible 2010
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The lump sum he took from the buyout is gone, Shales says Thursday night, on the phone from his house in McLean.
Tom Shales: I'm Leaving Washington Post, Am Heavily In Debt The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Crucell, whose management and board support a J & J buyout, is to be sold at a 58% premium for 4.5 times reported 2009 sales.
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The lump sum he took from the buyout is gone, Shales says Thursday night, on the phone from his house in McLean.
Tom Shales: I'm Leaving Washington Post, Am Heavily In Debt The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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