Synonyms for poison pill
poi·son pill

Princeton's WordNet

1. poison pillnoun

   the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer

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1. Renato Chaves:

   What I see is Embraer selling 85 percent of its revenue to Boeing, and the poison pill should apply, what they are doing is a disguised acquisition designed to avoid the poison pill.

2. Chuck Schumer:

   We hope our Republican colleagues will work with us in a bipartisan way so that the appropriations process meets the needs of the American people, if Republicans insist on inserting poison pill riders such as defunding Planned Parenthood, building a border wall, or starting a deportation force, they will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy.

3. Ele Klein:

   The theory of Elon Musk is that if shareholders tender to that condition, Elon Musk hasn't violated the poison pill because Elon Musk's not closing it... and if enough people tender Elon Musk can say to the company,' Look, I have the shares ready to be given to me, the only reason they can't is because you, the board, is blocking the will of the shareholders.

4. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal:

   Overbroad immunity from any accountability will be, in fact, a poison pill if it is included in the next emergency bill, COVID 4.

5. Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown:

   It is a poison pill in reverse.