buyout

[bahy-out]

noun

1. an act or instance of buying out, especially of buying all or a controlling percentage of the shares in a company.

Word History and Origins

Origin of buyout¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

The talks discussed a potential buyout price of around $15 a share, valuing the company at roughly $3 billion, the report said.

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Over the weekend, Penn State fired longtime head football coach James Franklin after the team started the season 3-3 — and agreed to give him the second-biggest coaching buyout in college football history.

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Affinity Partners last week closed a $55 billion deal with private-equity firm Silver Lake and the Saudi Public Investment Fund to take over videogame maker Electronic Arts, the largest leveraged buyout of all time.

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The company had been buying up MEG shares to position itself to oppose Cenovus’s buyout bid at the next shareholder meeting.

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A wave of senior staff departed the agency when Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency offered buyouts, taking decades of experience with them.

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