Associations to the word «Buyout»

Wiktionary

BUYOUT, noun. (finance) The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.

Dictionary definition

BUYOUT, noun. Acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope