poison pill
noun
: a financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted takeover prohibitively expensive or less desirable
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With no poison pills or unrelated riders—the bill is simple: extend funding and certainty for the nation.
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
For a school hoping to educate 20 students, this was a poison pill.
—Michael McShane, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Just getting to a salary match on Butler’s $48 million deal is tricky, given that Jalen Green’s extension has a poison pill provision and trading VanVleet would leave the team without a point guard.
—Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Lewin slipped the poison pill into her mouth, but the assailants choked her and removed the capsule.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
For a school hoping to educate 20 students, this was a poison pill.
—Michael McShane, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Just getting to a salary match on Butler’s $48 million deal is tricky, given that Jalen Green’s extension has a poison pill provision and trading VanVleet would leave the team without a point guard.
—Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Lewin slipped the poison pill into her mouth, but the assailants choked her and removed the capsule.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for poison pill
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“Poison pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poison%20pill. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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