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Greenmail Moderate

Greenmail has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(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

2

Profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.

Verb
1

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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