| 词汇 | greenmail |
| 释义 | greenmail noun[ U ] STOCK MARKETuk /ˈɡriːnmeɪl/us the act of buying enough shares in a company to be able to control it, in order to force the owners of the company to buy back these shares at a very high price: The stockmarkets are not yet free of greenmail. Compare blackmailnoun greenmail verb[ T ] STOCK MARKETuk /ˈɡriːnmeɪl/us to buy enough shares in a company to be able to control it, in order to sell them again at a very high price: Did he want to greenmail the company into buying him out at a fat profit? Compare blackmailverb Examples of greenmailgreenmail All manner of exotic devices have been invented to avoid that—golden parachutes, shark repellent, pacmac defences, greenmail and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The practice of greenmail is not typically considered a tactic of private equity investors and is not condoned by market participants. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Greenmail is when someone buys a large block of a company's stock and threatens to take over the company unless he is paid a substantial premium over his purchase price. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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