grey knight

British

noun

informal an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clear Compare black knight white knight

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

grey knight

Out then spak an auld grey knight, Lay o’er the castle wa’, And says, ‘Alas, fair Janet, for thee But we’ll be blamed a’.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

Now haud your tongue, ye auld grey knight!

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023