How to pronounce “white knight”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (business) An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
• (fiction) A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
• (figurative, derogatory) Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
• A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
• Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white,‎ knight.
• [Verb]
• (figurative, derogatory) To unnecessarily defend someone, especially in an attempt to gain favour.

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