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Greenmail

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

greenmail


[green (money) + -mail (as in blackmail)]
: the practice of buying enough of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value
;also
: the money paid for such stock
greenmail vt

green·mail·er n




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