A buyout is the moment when someone takes control of a company by buying all, or nearly all, of its shares. They are not buying one desk or one shop; they are buying the right to decide what the company does. You hear it on the money pages.

A buyout is the moment when someone takes control of a company by buying all, or nearly all, of its sharesbuyout 是指有人買下一間公司全部或幾乎全部股份藉此取得控制權的那個時刻 They are not buying one desk or one shop他們買的不是一張桌子或一間店面 they are buying the right to decide what the company does而是買下決定公司怎麼經營的權力 You hear it on the money pages你會在財經版看到這個字

A management buyout is when the people already running the firm buy it themselves. A leveraged buyout is when they borrow a great deal of money to pay for those shares — a heavy, rather specialist use.

A management buyout is when the people already running the firm buy it themselvesmanagement buyout 管理層收購是指原本經營公司的人自己把公司買下來 A leveraged buyout is when they borrow a great deal of money to pay for those sharesleveraged buyout 槓桿收購則是他們借一大筆錢來付這些股份的錢 a heavy, rather specialist use這是個比較沉重、專業的用法

The word is formal. In ordinary talk people often just say they bought the company.

The word is formal這個字很正式 In ordinary talk在日常對話裡 people often just say they bought the company大家常常就只說他們把那間公司買下來了

Though actually, the phrasal verb came first: to buy someone out is to pay them until their share is gone and they are out. The noun buyout is that act, named as a thing.

Though actually不過事實上 the phrasal verb came first片語動詞才是先出現的 to buy someone out is to pay them until their share is gone and they are outbuy 某人 out 是指付錢給對方直到他的股份沒了、人也出局 The noun buyout is that act, named as a thing名詞 buyout 就是把這個動作變成一個名稱