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white knight

NOUN
  1. a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover

How To Use white knight In A Sentence

  • The White Knight turbojet aircraft climbs over the Mojave desert with SpaceShipOne attached to its underbelly.
  • The Gulf Stream is a benign, liquid force, flowing from under the ribs of the equator, -- a white knight of the South going up to battle the giant of the North. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
  • An easier option would be to hold out for a white knight, but that would require yet another costly restructuring. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be several servile sycophants who will come forward as ‘White Knights’ to regain their lost positions.
  • Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests.
  • I have replaced this with a white knight, which makes no difference to the solution. Times, Sunday Times
  • Potential white knights would then be offered some further limited financial backing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oh, and there being a widespread proliferation of interesting ARM-based designs, many available to buy on a per unit basis for reasonable sums of money, and yet RISC OS is the "devil on skis" choice, hypothetically available for such devices if people weren't too busy squabbling and playing gatekeeper with their continually depreciating "intellectual property". bluenose: "Still we can dream of another white knight riding in to produce ARM hardware Drobe Launchpad News
  • The White Knight is checking the Black King, attacking the Black Queen, and also attacking both Black Rooks.
  • Of course, when you are a blonde bombshell, there are bound to be white knights coming out of the old-world woodwork.
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