buyout

• buy-out

Deverbal from buy out.

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buyout (plural buyouts)

1. (finance) The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
   • 2025 February 4, Katie Bo Lillis and Kaitlan Collins, “CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.

   • 2025 February 12, Paula Reid, Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, “Federal judge lets Trump’s ‘buyout’ plan for federal employees proceed”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Those orders frustrated the administration’s attempt to bring a quick close to the so-called buyout offer.

2. The use of grant monies to pay for another person to perform the usual duties, especially teaching duties, of someone engaged on the funded project.

• buy out (verb)

• merger
• sellout
• takeover

• outbuy

• buy-out, buy out

Unadapted borrowing from English buyout.

buyout m (invariable)

1. buyout