greenmail

greenmail
/green"mayl'/, n. Stock Exchange.
the practice of buying a large block of a company's stock in order to force a rise in stock prices or an offer by the company to repurchase that block of stock at an inflated price to thwart a possible takeover bid.
[GREEN (in sense "money") + (BLACK)MAIL]

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