buyout

adquisición, compra de control

Compra de una empresa o de suficientes acciones para controlarla.

En inglés sencillo: The purchase of a company or enough of its shares to control it.

• The board approved the buyout.
• Managers arranged a buyout of the business.
• Several buyouts changed ownership across the industry.

Cómo se usa: buyout of something (The investors completed a buyout of the company.)

Sinónimos: takeover, acquisition

Expresiones frecuentes: management buyout, leveraged buyout, buyout deal

liberación docente

Uso de fondos de un proyecto para pagar a quien asuma las tareas habituales de un investigador, especialmente las docentes.

En inglés sencillo: Using project funding to pay someone else to do a researcher's regular duties, especially teaching.

• The grant includes a teaching buyout.
• Her buyout freed one semester for research.
• The department used buyout funding to hire a replacement lecturer.

Expresiones frecuentes: teaching buyout, course buyout, fund a buyout