Greenmail

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An antitakeover maneuver in which the target firm purchases the raider's stock at a price above that available to other stockholders.
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  • n. Profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act, performed by a publicly traded corporation, of paying a corporate raider to give up a takeover attempt, by buying the shares of stock he owns; also, the threat posed by corporate raiders to take over a company unless their stocks are purchased by the company at a price giving them a large profit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shark repellent    porcupine provision   
    Form
    greenmailer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    greenmailing   
     
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