"SPAC" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /spæk/ Forms: SPACs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} SPAC (plural SPACs)
  1. (business) Acronym of special-purpose acquisition company. Tags: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Alternative form of: special-purpose acquisition company Categories (topical): Business Synonyms: blank check company[Appendix:Glossary#informal|informal]]>
    Sense id: en-SPAC-en-noun-LjUZU89E Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Topics: business
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Spac

Verb

IPA: /spæk/ Forms: SPACs [present, singular, third-person], SPACing [participle, present], SPACed [participle, past], SPACed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} SPAC (third-person singular simple present SPACs, present participle SPACing, simple past and past participle SPACed)
  1. (business) To become a listed company via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. Categories (topical): Business
    Sense id: en-SPAC-en-verb-okdi3KgO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92 Topics: business
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Spac

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Their company, Reinvent Technology Partners, raised $600 million in an I.P.O. and started trading yesterday, posting one of the biggest one-day share price gains of any SPAC so far this year. That suggests that investors see promise in their approach, well before their vehicle finds a target company to merge with.",
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          "text": "The startup SPACed and was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange."
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