poison pill (English, noun)
expansion: poison pill (plural poison pills)
Senses:
topics: business
glosses: Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, pill.
Forms:
form: poison pills
tags: plural