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godfather offer

noun

informal a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it

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Nearby words

  1. godet,
  2. godetia,
  3. godey,
  4. godey, louis antoine,
  5. godfather,
  6. godfather, the,
  7. godforsaken,
  8. godfrey,
  9. godfrey of bouillon,
  10. godhead

Word Origin for godfather offer

C20: from the 1972 film The Godfather, in which a character was made an offer he could not refuse by a threatening mafioso
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