Usually means: Corporate strategy to deter takeover.
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  2. greenmail: Webster's New World Finance & Investment 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.

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