preacquisition profit

/ (ˌpriːækwɪˈzɪʃən) /

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noun

the retained profit of a company earned before a takeover and therefore not eligible for distribution as a dividend to the shareholders of the acquiring company

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How to use preacquisition profit in a sentence

Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
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She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.
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Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
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Albuquerque Economic Development, a private non-profit, estimates the five year growth rate at almost double the U.S. in general.
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Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
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Nearly all our great intervales might be irrigated immensely to the profit of their cultivators.
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There was a great comparing of papers, and turning over of leaves, by Fogg and Perker, after this statement of profit and loss.
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My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.
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Only I fear they will not profit us much; for if my eyes deceive me not, both are already captured.
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