buyout

買収

会社そのものや、経営を支配できるだけの株式を買うこと。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： buyout of something (The investors completed a buyout of the company.)

類義語： takeover, acquisition

よく使う表現： management buyout, leveraged buyout, buyout deal

授業負担の買い取り、教育業務免除

研究者の授業など通常業務を代行する人に、研究費から支払うこと。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： teaching buyout, course buyout, fund a buyout