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| Colorful English! | ||||
| Word or Phrase: | Part of Speech: | Idiom or General?: | Usage? | Restricted? |
| greenmail | noun | general | rare, except in business | No |
| Meaning: | ||||
| the act of buying sufficient company stock to threaten a hostile takeover and then reselling it to the company at a price above market value | ||||
| Example(s): | ||||
| Greenmail is a trick used by greedy, evil people to immorally steal money from a decent company. | ||||
| Note: Greenmail can also be used as a verb, and greenmailer is the noun for such an immoral person. | ||||