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TARGET COMPANY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does target company mean?
• TARGET COMPANY (noun)
The noun TARGET COMPANY has 1 sense:
1. a company that has been chosen as attractive for takeover by a potential acquirer
Familiarity information: TARGET COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A company that has been chosen as attractive for takeover by a potential acquirer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
takeover target; target company
Hypernyms ("target company" is a kind of...):
company (an institution created to conduct business)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "target company"):
sleeping beauty (a potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play)
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