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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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 In this Congress, he's led committee approval of partisan funding bills that include antiabortion and anti-gender-affirming care poison pills, as well as funding cuts to health agencies and a reorganization of NIH. —

Victoria Knight, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024 Fewer than 2% of companies in the S&P 500 have a poison pill in place today. —

Jeff Jacobs, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for poison pill