shark repellent

n. something that prevents corporate takeovers. (Securities markets.) Acme Systems tried again to get its board to approve a shark repellent to keep the Widget cartel from acquiring it.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Klara	KLAH-rah (German, Russian, Polish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian
Tuomas	TOO-o-mahs	Finnish
Khan	-	Urdu, Pashto
Arlott	['a:lət]
Edmondo	-	Italian
Ioanna	-	Greek, Biblical Greek