A takeover offer made in competition with one or more other offers.

It may be used to acquire control of a target company as an alternative to a takeover offer.

A takeover offer which is recommended by the board of the target company.

Students said the decor came well before the takeover offer.

The $573.8 million takeover offer was from a management group.

The company has become the target of a $1.7 billion takeover offer by a private equity group.

The agency says she told her husband about the pending takeover offer.

The rights could be exercised in the case of a takeover offer so as to make the attempt very expensive.

He had made the same commitments already in the two weeks since the takeover offer became public knowledge.

An investor group said it was prepared to raise its takeover offer for the company to $72 a share from $70.