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Finnish
Etymology
vallata + -us
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɑltɑus/,
- Rhymes: -ɑltɑus
- Syllabification(key): val‧ta‧us
- Hyphenation(key): val‧ta‧us
Noun
valtaus
- takeover (time or event in which control or authority changes hands, especially unwillingly over a facility)
Tukikohdan valtaus sujui ongelmitta.- The base takeover came off without problems.
- conquest (that which is conquered; possession gained by force)
- Synonym: valloitus
- (economics) takeover (purchase of one company by another, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase)
- vihamielinen valtaus ― hostile takeover
- (mining) claim, mining claim (claim of the right to extract minerals from a tract of public, or, depending on jurisdiction, private land; the piece of land claimed)
- Synonym: kaivosvaltaus
- (law) claiming/assuming the ownership of property, especially movables but historically also land, which has no owner or has been abandoned by its owner (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
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