Greenmail
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
(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
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Greenmails
- possessive
- Greenmail's
- pluralpossessive
- Greenmails'