Elliott

American  

[el-ee-uht, el-yuht] / ˈɛl i ət, ˈɛl yət /

noun

1. Herb(ert James), born 1938, Australian track athlete.

2. Also Elliot. a male given name, form of Elias.

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Example Sentences

“While those folks concentrated in the assets are feeling a lot of pain, the macro implications look pretty minimal,” said Bob Elliott, chief executive of Unlimited Funds.

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A federal judge endorsed Elliott Investment Management’s roughly $6 billion bid for Venezuela’s shares of Citgo Petroleum, pushing the forced sale of the country’s prized foreign asset closer to completion.

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District Judge Leonard P. Stark approved a court-appointed special master’s selection of Elliott as the winning bid, saying that although it didn’t have the highest sticker price, it was the best all-around bid and the one most certain to close.

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Elliott was challenged in its bidding by judgment holder Gold Reserve, which put forth an offer over $7 billion.

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But the special master appointed to oversee the sale preferred Elliott’s because it included a settlement with bondholders who asserted collateral rights over Citgo.

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