raid
/reɪd/ noun [C] STOCK MARKETDefinition
› an attempt to take control of a company by buying a lot of its shares: He helped build one of Britain's biggest conglomerates during the 1980s with a series of daring corporate raids. a raid on sth So far, it has not decided what it will do to stop a raid on its shares. → See also bear raid, dawn raid
(Definition of raid noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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