Definitions for poison pill
poi·son pill

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1. poison pillnoun

   the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer

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1. poison pillnoun

   Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.

2. poison pillnoun

   A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead

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1. poison pill

   A poison pill, in business terminology, is a defensive strategy used by corporations to prevent hostile takeovers. This involves implementing certain measures that make the company's stocks less attractive or more costly to the prospective acquirer. These measures can include the issuance of new shares to existing shareholders at a discount, or offering them the rights to purchase additional shares at a later date, thereby diluting the value of the acquirer's holdings. The term "poison pill" is derived from the idea of making the company "too poisonous" or too difficult for another firm to acquire.

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   The numerical value of poison pill in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of poison pill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of poison pill in a Sentence

1. Emily Benavides:

   After voting for the poison pill amendment that stopped immigration reform in its tracks as a senator, and saying she believed the unaccompanied minors 'should be sent back' to their home countries last year, she is now running further to the left on immigration policy than even President Obama's White House believes is legally feasible, hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected and her numerous flip-flops on immigration prove it.

2. Chuck Schumer:

   We hope our Republican colleagues will work with us in a bipartisan way so that the appropriations process meets the needs of the American people, if Republicans insist on inserting poison pill riders such as defunding Planned Parenthood, building a border wall, or starting a deportation force, they will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy.

3. Renato Chaves:

   What I see is Embraer selling 85 percent of its revenue to Boeing, and the poison pill should apply, what they are doing is a disguised acquisition designed to avoid the poison pill.

4. Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown:

   It is a poison pill in reverse.

5. Ele Klein:

   The theory of Elon Musk is that if shareholders tender to that condition, Elon Musk hasn't violated the poison pill because Elon Musk's not closing it... and if enough people tender Elon Musk can say to the company,' Look, I have the shares ready to be given to me, the only reason they can't is because you, the board, is blocking the will of the shareholders.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=poison pill
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Poison_Pill
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