| 单词 | dowry |
| 释义 | dowry dowry // noun [C] (plural dowries) (figurative)
(used especially in newspapers) an extra amount of money that a company offers in order to encourage another company to agree to a takeover (= where one company buys another): The merger has been consummated (= completed) with a dowry of more than $8 billion. NOTE When journalists use the word dowry in this way they are comparing the process of buying a company to getting married. In some cultures, a wife or her family must give money and/or property (a dowry) to her husband when they get married. |
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