Similar words: green manure, chain mail, green, greeny, greens, greenway, greener, greenly. Meaning: 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.
1, Family control would prevent any hostile takeover or greenmail attempt.
2, Greenmail is the practice of buying larger share of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value.
3, The ABC company institute themselves a victim of greenmail when they realized they had bought back their have at a much higher price.
4, But mostly we made things like greenmail and leveraged buyouts and they made, well, a lot of stuff — widgets the world loved.
5, The ABC company found themselves a victim of greenmail when they realized they had bought back their stock at a much higher price.
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