Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SCORCHED-EARTH POLICY
  
  Often used in risk arbitrage. Any technique a company that has become the target of a takeover attempt uses to make itself unattractive to the acquirer. For example, it may agree to sell off its crown jewels, or schedule all debt to become due immediately after a merger.
  
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