"poison pill" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Donald DePamphilis, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Academic Press, page 151",
          "text": "The study also concludes that there is no indication that poison pills reduce the chance that a company will become a takeover target. In contrast, if investors viewed the introduction of the poison pill as deterring potential takeover attempts, the effect on shareholder returns would be negative.",
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          "ref": "2022 April 14, Lauren Hirsch, “What happens next in Musk’s Twitter takeover offer.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "There are reasons Twitter may opt not to do a poison pill. It might be wary of potential criticism that a poison pill is deflecting the concerns of a highly vocal member of its community.",
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        "Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover."
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        "(business) Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "shareholder rights plan"
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          "ref": "1996, William J. Clinton, “Remarks on the Legislative Agenda and an Exchange With Reporters”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, volume 1, page 706",
          "text": "They want to load the bills up with poison pills, measures the Republicans are inserting in the legislation to make sure I will veto it, so they can pretend it's not just the poison pill I'm against but the bill itself.",
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        "A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead."
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        "(politics) A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, pill."
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          "word": "suicide pill"
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          "ref": "2003, Donald DePamphilis, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Academic Press, page 151",
          "text": "The study also concludes that there is no indication that poison pills reduce the chance that a company will become a takeover target. In contrast, if investors viewed the introduction of the poison pill as deterring potential takeover attempts, the effect on shareholder returns would be negative.",
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        "Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover."
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        "(business) Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover."
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        "(politics) A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead."
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