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 hostile ['hɒstail]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 敌人的, 怀敌意的, 敌对的

n. 敌对分子

[法] 敌方的, 故意的, 敌对的




    hostile
    [ noun ]
    1. troops belonging to the enemy's military forces

    2. <noun.group>
      the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles
    [ adj ]
    1. characterized by enmity or ill will

    2. <adj.all>
      a hostile nation
      a hostile remark
      hostile actions
    3. not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally

    4. <adj.all>
      hostile naval and air forces
    5. impossible to bring into friendly accord

    6. <adj.all>
      hostile factions
    7. very unfavorable to life or growth

    8. <adj.all>
      a hostile climate
      an uncongenial atmosphere
      an uncongenial soil
      the unfriendly environment at high altitudes
    9. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)

    10. <adj.all>
      hostile takeover
      hostile tender offer
      hostile bid


    Hostile \Hos"tile\, a. [L. hostilis, from hostis enemy: cf. F.
    hostile. See {Host} an army.]
    Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition
    of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to
    thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical;
    unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a
    hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

    Syn: Warlike; inimical; unfriendly; antagonistic; opposed;
    adverse; opposite; contrary; repugnant.


    Hostile \Hos"tile\, n.
    An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the
    whites; -- commonly in the plural. [Colloq.] --P. H.
    Sheridan.

    Aggressive \Ag*gres"sive\, a. [Cf. F. agressif.]
    1. Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing
    determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at
    the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or
    desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults;
    unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person,
    nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive
    basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his
    convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of
    {unaggressive}.
    [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

    No aggressive movement was made. --Macaulay.

    2. marked by self-confident ambition, competitiveness, energy
    and initiative; as, an aggressive young executive.

    Syn: enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
    [WordNet 1.5]

    3. 1 (Med., Biol.) tending to spread quickly an aggressive
    tumor [Narrower terms: {invasive (vs. noninvasive) ]

    Syn: fast-growing(prenominal)
    [WordNet 1.5]

    4. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
    aggressive acts against another country

    Syn: belligerent
    [WordNet 1.5]

    Note: Narrower related terms: {bellicose, combative,
    pugnacious, scrappy, truculent ; {hard-hitting,
    high-pressure ; {hostile} (used of attempts to buy or
    take control of a business: "hostile takeover";
    "hostile tender offer"); {predatory, rapacious,
    raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous . See also:
    assertive, hostile, offensive.
    [WordNet 1.5] -- {Ag*gres"sive*ly}, adv. --
    {Ag*gres"sive*ness}, n.

    1. "This isn't a hostile offer," said Stuart A. Rose, chairman and chief executive officer of Audio/Video, a Dayton, Ohio-based electronics parts distibutor.
    2. They foster hostile takeovers and an over-reliance on profitability as a yardstick of success. The chapter on Britain offers a rich and complex explanation of why its industry is in decline.
    3. Federal securities regulators have questioned MAI Basic Four Inc. about possible violations of stock margin requirements in its hostile bid for Prime Computer Inc., MAI Basic confirmed Monday.
    4. Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc. said it has filed a settlement proposal on litigation stemming from its $1.1 billion restructuring, which thwarted a hostile takeover bid last December.
    5. The soft-spoken, 58-year-old Mr. Gerber caught many in Swiss business circles off guard with the hostile offer.
    6. McCaw's outstanding hostile tender offer of $110 per share for LIN stock it doesn't already own had been scheduled to expire at midnight EDT Friday.
    7. Bank of New York's hostile takeover bid for Irving Bank Corp. is being interrupted for 10 days on a federal judge's orders.
    8. A Generali spokesman said it hadn't any hostile intentions against Midi, but that it would have the financial "capacity" to buy an additional stake.
    9. South Korean President Roh Tae-woo left for San Francisco Sunday, saying that his talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would open a new era in relations between the two once hostile nations.
    10. Separately, Britoil's hopes for foiling BP's hostile bid seemed to fade yesterday.
    11. But they are divided, in some cases more hostile to each other than to the governing National Liberation Front.
    12. "So long as America keeps its hostile attitude toward Iran, there will be no sign of any changes and there will be no negotiations," Rafsanjani said Tuesday in a television interview monitored in Nicosia.
    13. Burroughs made a hostile acquisition of Sperry, according to Burroughs Chairman W. Michael Blumenthal, because it believed a combination would create a much stronger competitor to industry giant International Business Machines Corp.
    14. Mr. Lapthorne said Courtaulds would welcome Mr. Packer as a long-term investor but would fiercely defend its independence against hostile predators.
    15. The hostile cash offers sharply boosted arbitrage profits because they often triggered bidding wars for target companies.
    16. GAF made a hostile bid for the chemical concern in 1985 that, while ultimately unsuccessful, forced Union Carbide into a major restructuring.
    17. Besides Kidder, Peabody & Co., Burlington's traditional investment banker, the company is also understood to have retained First Boston Corp., which is known for helping companies shape defenses against hostile takeovers.
    18. Some said Mr. Trump's buying could act as a catalyst, either for a hostile bid, for a restructuring that could spin off some MCA assets, or for the sale of the company to a friendly outsider.
    19. Princeville Development Corp. said Spinner Corp. agreed to end its $106 million hostile takeover bid, and that the two companies dropped all litigation against each other.
    20. "That's quite a deal, and we're saying no," Beidler said. "We're going to send our cards back to American Express in pieces." American Express and Shearson also have come under fire from state officials for their role in the hostile bid.
    21. Other analysts said it was unlikely that British regulators would approve a hostile takeover of an old-line firm like Cadbury.
    22. Time and Warner, which originally planned to merge in a stock swap transaction, revised the deal in response to Paramount's $10.7 billion hostile bid for Time, providing instead for Time to acquire Warner in a $14 billion, $70-a-share tender offer.
    23. Americans seem to be growing more and more hostile toward government - viewing it more as their enemy than their servant.
    24. Nestle's hostile offer challenges a smaller Swiss competitor, Jacobs Suchard.
    25. Irving Bank Corp. has denounced as "totally without merit" hostile suitor Bank of New York's questioning of preliminary results of a heated proxy battle that indicated Irving retained control of its board of directors.
    26. The committee is thus a group which is impelled to agree and is instinctively hostile to that which is divisive or new. Failing the decision-by-committee avoidance tactic, individuals can resort to their own preferred approach.
    27. Tyson offered $54 a share in a hostile takeover or a cash-plus-stock deal valued at $57 a share in a friendly merger.
    28. By the time he made a hostile bid for the company in early 1986, gas prices had begun to collapse.
    29. A mission can keep an SR-71 in the air for 12 hours, entering hostile territory and leaving it to refuel perhaps four or five times, says Orcutt, SR-71 squadron commander at Beale.
    30. The Marine Corps today declared two officers missing from last week's fighting in the Persian Gulf "killed in action" and disclosed that they reported a hostile radar had locked on their helicopter gunship before it disappeared.
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