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White knight   /waɪt naɪt/   Listen
White knight

noun
1.
A company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover.






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"White knight" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I thought that I had carried a burden long enough, without having the curiosity to see what it contained. When I did untie it and inspect it, it seemed to me that a great part of what it contained was not particularly useful, but designed, like the furniture of the White Knight's horse, in Through the Looking Glass, to provide against unlikely contingencies. I thought that I might live life, of the brevity and frailty of which I had become suddenly aware, upon simpler and more ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson

... foreigner in your world of dreams and shadows. No prince, Audrey, or great white knight and hero. Only a gentleman of these latter days, compact like his fellows of strength and weakness; now very wise and now the mere finger-post of folly; set to travel his own path; able to hear above him in the rarer air the trumpet call, but choosing ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston

... John equipped him as a white knight, and gave him a white horse. Again he was the only one who caught the apple, and he did not linger an instant, but galloped off with it. The King grew angry, and said, "That is not allowed; he must ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers



Words linked to "White knight" :   company, white squire



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