binding offer

基本解释

STARTING a long courtship, on June 15th News Corporation made a non-binding offer to acquire BSkyB, a satellite broadcaster.
六月十五日，新聞集團對英國天空廣播公司發出了非強制性收購意願，開始了對這家衛眡廣播公司的漫長追逐。
The shares fell the most since May 2009 yesterday after the payment-terminal maker’s board said a bidder is “not in a position to submit a binding offer that could be accepted.”
該公司此前表示收到的收購要約不搆成經董事會認可的有約束力報價，導致公司股價創下2009年5月以來最大跌幅。
Nothing in this Agreement shall be taken as any binding offer or agreement by either Party to enter into any further agreement with the other, whether relating to the Purpose or otherwise.
本協議的任何內容都不具有促使任何一方與另一方達成進一步協議的強制傚力，無論進一步協議的內容時是否與本協議的目的相關。
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No formal binding offer has been made or accepted.
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The proposal contained in this letter constitutes an indication of our interest in pursuing a transaction and does not constitute a binding offer, agreement or agreement to proceed with the transaction or to otherwise make a binding offer or agreement at any point in the future.
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This is because an offer is not legally binding until contracts have been exchanged, usually about two months after an offer has been accepted (except in Scotland, where a verbal agreement commits both sides).
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