Usually means: Corporate strategy to deter takeover.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. greenmail: Merriam-Webster
  2. greenmail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. greenmail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. greenmail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. greenmail: Vocabulary.com
  6. greenmail: Wordnik
  7. greenmail: Wiktionary
  8. greenmail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. greenmail: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. greenmail: Dictionary.com
  11. Greenmail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. greenmail: Rhymezone
  13. greenmail: FreeDictionary.org
  14. greenmail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. greenmail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. greenmail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. greenmail: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. greenmail: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. greenmail: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Greenmail: bizterms.net
  9. Greenmail: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. Greenmail: Moneyterms
  11. greenmail: Finance-Glossary.com
  12. Greenmail: Management Dictionary
  13. Greenmail: Investopedia
  14. Greenmail: Legal dictionary
  15. Greenmail: Financial dictionary
  16. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greenmail: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. greenmail: A Word A Day
  2. greenmail: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (greenmail)

▸ noun:  Profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.
▸ verb:  To profit from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.

Similar:
whitemail, bear hug, flip-in, takeover bid, shareholder rights plan, washing, takeover, scalping, profitmongering, grey market, more...

Opposite:
antigreenmail, whitewash, friendly takeover

Phrases:
anti greenmail provision, more...

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Similar:
whitemail, bear hug, flip-in, takeover bid, shareholder rights plan, washing, takeover, scalping, profitmongering, grey market, more...

Opposite:
antigreenmail, whitewash, friendly takeover

Phrases:
anti greenmail provision, more...



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