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buyout
What does buyout mean?
buyout (noun): acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use buyout in a sentence?
- Regulators blocked the buyout on anti-trust grounds. (Tatoeba sentence #13403709 by frpzzd, CC BY 2.0 FR)
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