dead-hand pill
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A poison pill redeemable only by the directors who adopted it, disabling a newly elected board from removing it.
Delaware struck down the dead-hand pill as an impermissible fetter on the incoming board's power.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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