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takeover


noun

  1. the act of seizing, appropriating, or arrogating authority, control, management, etc.
  2. an acquisition or gaining control of a corporation through the purchase or exchange of stock.

n.1917, “an act of taking over,” noun derivative of verbal phrase take over (1884), from take (v.) + over. Attested from 1958 in the corporate sense.

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