Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tender offer

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English

Syllables: ten-der of-fer
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of public takeover bid in which a prospective acquirer invites all stockholders of a publicly traded corporation to tender their stock for sale at a specified price during a specified time, subject to the tendering of a minimum and maximum number of shares.

Example Sentences

"The potential deal — where OpenAI would sell existing company shares in a so-called tender offer — could total $300 million, depending on how many employees agree to sell their stock, they said."

Inflected Forms

tender offers (plural)

Questions

What does tender offer mean?: A type of public takeover bid in which a prospective acquirer invites all stockholders of a publicly traded corporation to tender their stock for sale at a specified price during a specified time, subject to the tendering of a minimum and maximum number of shares.

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