poison pill

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.
    — The study also concludes that there is no indication that poison pills reduce the chance that a company will become a takeover target. In contrast, if investors viewed the introduction of the poison pill as deterring potential takeover attempts, the effect on shareholder returns would be negative.
  2. A provision in a bill that leads to potential supporters opposing it instead.
    — They want to load the bills up with poison pills, measures the Republicans are inserting in the legislation to make sure I will veto it, so they can pretend it's not just the poison pill I'm against but the bill itself.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, pill.

词形变化

poison pills plural
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