| 词汇 | dawn-raid |
| 释义 | dawn raid noun[ C ] STOCK MARKET UKukus a situation in which a company unexpectedly buys a lot of shares in another company as soon as the stock market opens: Panic gripped the electricity sector after a dawn raid on a UK electricity company by a big American energy group. Compare takeover bid Examples of dawn raiddawn raid This is a dawnraid with a vengeance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether it was £3 billion, £5 billion or £10 billion, it would be a dawnraid on the shareholder-owners of this country's privatised companies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I welcome in particular the action taken in respect of the dawnraid "concert party" exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The district auditor resorted to a dawnraid on some of the offices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under the poison pill mechanism, additional shares will immediately be created if a dawnraid is carried out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He asked the police if they had carried out basic checks on the allegations before making the dawnraid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is a fair line of argument, but a dawnraid of unparalled proportions on the long-term future of people's savings was not the method to use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is the dawnraid no more? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have already totted up that about 6 million people are going to be up in arms at this dawnraid on their sensible tax reliefs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From the beginning, with the failure to carry out the most basic checks before the dawnraid, the handling of the whole business has been inept. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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