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WHITE KNIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does white knight mean?
• WHITE KNIGHT (noun)
The noun WHITE KNIGHT has 1 sense:
1. a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover
Familiarity information: WHITE KNIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("white knight" is a kind of...):
company (an institution created to conduct business)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white knight"):
white squire (a white knight that buys less than a majority interest)
Context examples
On the second day Iron Hans equipped him as a white knight, and gave him a white horse.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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