tender offer
noun
a public offer to purchase stock of a corporation from its shareholders at a certain price within a stated time limit, often in an effort to win control of the company.
Origin of tender offer
1First recorded in 1960–65
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How to use tender offer in a sentence
She may be under the necessity of writing to decline a tender offer made to her by a gentleman.
Instead, He sends you once more by me, even now—even fresh from this new defiance of His mercy, the tender offer of His grace!
Robert Elsmere | Mrs. Humphry Ward
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