leveraged buyout

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Definitions of leveraged buyout words

noun leveraged buyout the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO. 1
noun leveraged buyout a takeover bid in which a small company makes use of its limited assets, and those of the usually larger target company, to raise the loans required to finance the takeover 0
noun leveraged buyout the acquisition of a corporation, using mostly borrowed funds which are secured by the assets of the corporation being acquired 0
noun leveraged buyout (business) A transaction in which a business firm, or a controlling share of a firm, is purchased using money which was borrowed by pledging all or some of the firm's assets as collateral. 0

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leverage — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
takeover — the act of seizing, appropriating, or arrogating authority, control, management, etc.

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