proxy fight
hijack
hostile takeover
retarget
Pac-Man defense
bucket
to
targeting
deaccumulation
hostile
vertical integration
stocktake
pass the torch
goalpost
migrate
reverse confusion
subordination
charge
buyout
forward integration
sequestration
requisition
dispose of
backslide
corporate raid
aimed
takeover attempt
sell past the close
friendly takeover
substitute
concession
revaluate
confiscate
white knight
rules of the game
shark repellent
benchmark
earnout
shareholder rights plan
poison pill
reformation
porcupine provision
takeover bid
bend
for it
phoenix
displace
answerable
contract awarding
management control
get with the program
overwatch
denationalize
move
lord it over
acquiree
transferal
means to an end
quasi-reorganization
trigger pricing
privileging
whitemail
safe harbor
pretarget
determinization
elimination
savepoint
prophylaxis
sparring
take over
tantième
holding company
contract
make capital out of
greenmail
target-hunting
tune
equity
probe
white-label
ontake
merger
bag
takeover
reversive
telic
correction
remodeling
corner
hit
marketization
offset
attorn
play to
rectification
backward integration
make one's own luck
employee stock ownership plan
ESOP
hostile
aimed
answerable
target-hunting
reversive
telic
proxy fight
hostile takeover
Pac-Man defense
bucket
targeting
deaccumulation
vertical integration
stocktake
goalpost
reverse confusion
subordination
charge
buyout
forward integration
sequestration
requisition
corporate raid
takeover attempt
friendly takeover
substitute
concession
white knight
rules of the game
shark repellent
earnout
shareholder rights plan
poison pill
reformation
porcupine provision
takeover bid
contract awarding
management control
overwatch
move
acquiree
transferal
means to an end
quasi-reorganization
trigger pricing
privileging
whitemail
safe harbor
determinization
elimination
savepoint
prophylaxis
sparring
tantième
holding company
greenmail
equity
probe
ontake
merger
takeover
correction
remodeling
marketization
rectification
backward integration
employee stock ownership plan
ESOP
hijack
retarget
pass the torch
migrate
dispose of
backslide
sell past the close
revaluate
confiscate
benchmark
bend
phoenix
displace
get with the program
denationalize
lord it over
pretarget
take over
contract
make capital out of
tune
white-label
bag
corner
hit
offset
attorn
play to
make one's own luck
verb
- To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
- To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.
- To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
- To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site.
noun
noun
- A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- A bucket bag.
- A helmet.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- A great deal of anything.
- A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
- A large amount of liquid.
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
- An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
- A field goal.
- The amount held in this container.
- A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- The basket.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
verb
- To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
- To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- To rain heavily.
- To place inside a bucket.
- To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
- To travel very quickly.
- To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
- To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
prep
- Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
- Used to indicate result of action.
- Used to indicate a ratio or comparison; compared to, as against.
- Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
- At.
- Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
- Preceding the next hour.
- Indicating destination: In the direction of, so as to arrive at.
- Denotes the end of a range.
- Often used without the hour
- Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
- according to
- Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.
adv
particle
noun
- A rule or target that is "moved" (changed) unfairly; see move the goalposts.
- One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
- The tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order for a field goal to be scored. (They were originally H-shaped, with one wooden post on either side.)
verb
- To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.
- To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
- To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
- To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
- To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
- To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
noun
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
noun
- seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
- a writ that authorizes the seizure of property
noun
- seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
- the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use
- an official form on which a request is made
verb
noun
- An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- The act of conceding.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concession stands.
- A preferential tax rate.
- A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- An admission of defeat following an election.
- A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
- A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
verb
noun
- An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
- Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
- A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.
- A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
- A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
verb
noun
- Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
- An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
verb
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To stoop.
- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- To cause to change direction.
- To change direction.
- To force to submit.
- To submit.
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- To apply to a task or purpose.
- To become curved.
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- A curve.
- The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
verb
noun
- A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
- A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
- Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
- A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
verb
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
- To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- To put out of place; to disarrange.
- To repress.
- To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
noun
- A change in strategy.
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
verb
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
noun
- The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
verb
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To become more successful (than someone or something else).
- To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
verb
- To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- To enter into a contract with.
- To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
- To betroth; to affiance.
- To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- To gain or acquire (an illness).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
noun
- An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
- An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
- The document containing such an agreement.
- A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
verb
- Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
- To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.
- To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
- to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software such as VOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)
- To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.
- To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.
- To be impudent towards; to cheek.
- To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
- To give a certain tone or character to.
intj
noun
noun
- a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
- A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
- A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- An investigation or inquiry.
- Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
verb
noun
- An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
- A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
- One that merges.
- The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
- The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
verb
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To arrest.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- To steal.
- To put into a bag.
- To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- To drop away from the correct course.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
noun
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- One's preference.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- The scrotum.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- £1000, a grand.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- An ugly woman.
- A fellow gay man.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- A large number or amount.
- First, second, or third base.
- A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
noun
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- something substituted for an error
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- the act of disciplining
- treatment of a specific defect
verb
- To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- To supply with corners.
- To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
noun
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A cornerback.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- A corner kick.
- First base or third base.
- Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
verb
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
pron
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
verb
- To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- To place out of line.
noun
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
noun
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- the conversion of alternating current to direct current
- determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
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