Why would an M&A deal be financed partly through a revolver?

I was reading about the Twitter deal, and WSJ says the financing is as follows:

The debt package includes $6.5 billion in term loans, a $500 million revolving line of credit, $3 billion in secured bonds and $3 billion in unsecured bonds, according to public disclosures. To pay for the deal, Mr. Musk also needs to come up with roughly $34 billion in equity. To help with that, he received commitment letters in May for over $7 billion in financing from 19 investors including Oracle Corp. co-founder and Tesla Inc. then-board member Larry Ellison and venture firm Sequoia Capital Fund LP.

I'm a bit confused on what a revolver's purpose is for in this case. Is it to help with PMI costs and other operating costs post merger? Not actually there for the purpose of the acquisition itself?

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Because a revolver is the cheapest form of debt, however there is limitations to the size of what a revolver can be. Given it’s assets or AR

 

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