Poison pill may refer to:
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Suicide pill
A suicide pill (also known as the cyanide pill, kill-pill, lethal pill, death-pill, or L-pill) is a pill, capsule, ampoule, or tablet containing a fatally poisonous substance that a person ingests deliberately in order to achieve death quickly t ...
, a physical pill for suicide by poison
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Poison pill amendment
In legislative debate, a wrecking amendment (also called a poison pill amendment or killer amendment) is an amendment made by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and who seeks to make it useless (by moving amendments to either ...
or wrecking amendment, an addition to a legislative bill that renders it ineffective
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Shareholder rights plan
A shareholder rights plan, colloquially known as a "poison pill", is a type of defensive tactic used by a corporation's board of directors against a takeover.
In the field of mergers and acquisitions, shareholder rights plans were devised in the ...
, also called a poison pill, a subclass of anti-takeover provisions that dilutes the attacker's power
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Poison pill (NBA)
The NBA salary cap is the limit to the total amount of money that National Basketball Association teams are allowed to pay their players. Like many professional sports leagues, the NBA has a salary cap to control costs and benefit parity, defined b ...
, a type of player contract provision for some free agents in the National Basketball Association
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Poison pill (NFL), a type of player contract provision for some free agents in the National Football League from 1996 to 2010
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