White Knight

"White Knight" is also a: user

(person) by Tem42 (22.6 min) Wed Oct 16 2002 at 16:04:08

A rescuer. A good (white) warrior (knight), and figuratively anyone who saves you from any sort of trouble.

In the financial world, a white knight is a friendly company that 'saves' another company by taking it over before an unfriendly company (the black night) can.

The White Knight was also a character in Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking Glass.

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