ＴＯＢ

noun

take-over bid

Financial term for a public offer to purchase shares of a target company, often to gain control.

• その企き業ぎょうは敵てき対たい的てきＴＯＢを仕し掛かけられた。

  The company was targeted by a hostile take-over bid.

• ＴＯＢ価か格かくは一いち株かぶあたり二に千せん円えんに設せっ定ていされた。

  The take-over bid price was set at 2,000 yen per share.