VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Poison Pill

Meaning:

A provision or feature added to a measure or an entity to make it less attractive, an undesirable add-on

Examples:

  • The company adopted a poison pill strategy to discourage hostile takeovers.
  • The executive team put in place a poison pill plan to prevent a potential buyout.
  • The shareholders were unhappy with the board's use of a poison pill.
  • The poison pill provision prevented any outside investors from gaining too much control of the company.
  • The CEO threatened to use a poison pill if the company was in danger of being acquired.
  • The board of directors decided to activate the poison pill after a hostile takeover bid.
  • The poison pill clause was designed to protect the company's shareholders from unfair takeover offers.
  • The use of a poison pill can make a company less attractive to potential buyers.
  • The poison pill was a last resort to protect the company from being taken over by a competitor.
  • The company's shares dropped after the announcement of the poison pill.
  • The board of directors debated the use of a poison pill and the potential impact on the company's future.
  • The poison pill was put in place to defend against activist investors.
  • The poison pill provision was added to the company's bylaws to give the board more control over any potential takeover attempts.
  • The poison pill was designed to protect the company's employees from being laid off by new management.
  • The threat of a poison pill can be enough to discourage potential buyers from pursuing a takeover.
  • The use of a poison pill can create uncertainty among investors and hurt the company's stock price.
  • The poison pill clause was triggered when a shareholder acquired a large stake in the company.
  • The board of directors believed that the poison pill was necessary to preserve the company's independence.
  • The poison pill strategy is controversial and can lead to lawsuits from shareholders.
  • The company's management team implemented a poison pill to buy time to develop a new business strategy.
  • Now that you've seen the light, It's not a poison pill.
  • Wait, we're the poison pill?
  • It's like a poison pill.
  • The current system of paying the overtime premium to the employee is a poison pill.
  • The problem Britain has is that Margaret Thatcher with the 1984 Fontainebleau Agreement left future British Governments with a poison pill.
  • Now that you've seen the light, It's not a poison pill. The Sofia Rios deal is solid. I just...
  • Aid carries with it the poison pill of conditionality that forces the opening of the markets to privatisation of state assets, and the straitjacket of monetarist policies.
  • When I first saw them I had my doubts as to whether they constituted a genuine proposal because they were linked to a whole series of accompanying measures which threaten to act as a poison pill such that the proposals would never come into operation.