Login
Ideas
Quotes
Lessons
Words
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
Search:
Dictionary
All Posts
Search
Search
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login
/
Register - It's free!
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
greenmail
Definition
Cancel
Bank This Word!
My Lists
Login to Create a List
Register for Free!
Keep Public?
greenmail
noun
(green-mail)
the practice of buying enough of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value; also : the money paid for such stock
Words Related to
greenmail
!
hostile takeover
,
poison pill
,
tactic
,
takeover
,
arbitrageur
,
ploy
,
acquirer
,
stealth
,
strikebreaking
,
robber baron
,
subterfuge
,
takeover bid
,
gambit
,
ruse
,
golden parachute
,
buyback
,
blackmail
,
gunboat diplomacy
,
strategem
,
clawback
,
corporatism
,
payola
,
litigation
,
arbs
,
arbitrager
,
sub rosa
,
ponzi
,
pyramiding
,
hedgefund
,
cajolery
,
extortionist
,
dutch auction
,
leveraged buyout
,
acquisitor
,
stratagems
,
snakeoil
,
shareowner
,
vexatious litigation
,
defrauder
,
champerty
,
ackman
,
shareholders
,
offerer
,
stockholder
,
arbitraging
,
antisemite
,
shysters
,
wallstreet
,
tu quoque
,
bluffer
,
blunderbuss
,
subchapter s corporation
,
rattoon
,
recission
,
scorched earth policy
,
hedger
,
cocos
,
archeus
,
manipulation
,
peculation
,
landgrab
,
simony
,
shadily
,
ponzi scheme
,
barratry
,
speculator
,
bully
,
conglomerates
,
interlocking directorates
,
smokescreen
,
fiduciary duty
,
opportunism
,
strategics
,
disinformation
,
hedge fund
,
pretexting
,
usurers
,
lbo
,
nefariousness
,
caveat emptor
,
trustbuster
,
oligarch
,
capitalists
,
pigheadedness
,
racketeers
,
insider trading
,
raiders
,
anticipatory breach
,
obfuscation
,
protium
,
quietus
,
hardball
,
exculpation
,
dirty tricks
,
furtiveness
,
monopolist
,
goliath
,
plunderer
,
barrelhead
,
corporation
,
greenmail
Examples by Brain Bank Users