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tender offer

American  

noun

  1. a public offer to purchase stock of a corporation from its shareholders at a certain price within a stated time limit, often in an effort to win control of the company.


Etymology

Origin of tender offer

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

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One point of tension in the takeover saga has been the unusually small premium offered by UniCredit in its tender offer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

GSK will launch a tender offer of $124 a share for Nuvalent, expecting the deal to boost revenue from 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“Anthropic is doing a $30 billion tender offer at a $900 billion valuation External link, and they say, ‘You’ve got to have it signed by Wednesday and funded by Friday, or you’re out.’

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

WSJ: Five years from now, if everything goes to plan—the board seats get filled, the tender offer closes, Beretta becomes a 25% shareholder—what does that relationship look like?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

They argued that the government had not made a tender offer, as mandated by Argentine law, to these two companies, which were YPF's second- and third-largest investors.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

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