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Merger. An amicable involvement of two or more companies to form one unit, and to increase overall efficiency. The shareholders of merged companies are offered equivalent holdings in the new company, and old employees are generally retained. Takeovers, which are quite another matter, generate a lot more heat.
World domination. World domination (also called global domination, world conquest, global conquest, or cosmocracy) is a hypothetical power structure, either achieved or aspired to, in which a single political authority holds the power over all and/or virtually all the inhabitants of Earth. Various individuals or regimes have tried to achieve ...
Takeover. In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer or bidder ). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are publicly listed, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company . Management of the target company may or may not agree with a proposed ...
On Tuesday, the California-based company became not only the world’s most valuable company, but also the most valuable company ever. A new record share price of $136 took its overall market ...
Most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer. Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis.New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.
v. t. e. A coup d'état ( / ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː / ⓘ; French: [ku deta]; lit. 'stroke of state' ), [ 1] or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. [ 2][ 3] A self-coup is when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay ...
Corporatocracy. Corporatocracy ( / ˌkɔːrpərəˈtɒkrəsi /, from corporate and Greek: -κρατία, romanized : -kratía, lit. 'domination by'; short form corpocracy[ 1]) is an economic, political and judicial system controlled by business corporations or corporate interests. [ 2]
Another word for a "friend" or "Bro". It is often used to describe people or animals that are out of place. Derived from Jamaican slang and is believed to originally come from the term "blood brothers". "What is blud doing right now?" [21] Boujee (US: / ˈ b uː ʒ i / ⓘ) High-class/materialistic.