POISON PILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poison pill mean? 

• POISON PILL (noun)
  The noun POISON PILL has 1 sense:

1. the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer

  Familiarity information: POISON PILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POISON PILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("poison pill" is a kind of...):

porcupine provision; shark repellent (a measure undertaken by a corporation to discourage unwanted takeover attempts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poison pill"):

suicide pill (a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect)