Definitions
1.NounThe purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.
2.NounThe acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
3.NounA time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
4.NounAn event at which teens gather in public and act out; a street takeover.
5.VerbMisspelling of take over.