GREENMAIL


Meaning of GREENMAIL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈgrēn-ˌmāl ]

noun

Date: 1983

: 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

• greenmail transitive verb

• green·mail·er -ˌmā-lər noun

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.