GREENMAIL

PRONUNCIATION: (GREEN-mayl)

MEANING: noun: The practice of buying a large quantity of a company’s stock as a means of hostile takeover, then selling it back to the company at a higher price.
verb tr.: To subject a company to this tactic.

ETYMOLOGY: From green (money), from greenback (US currency note, from the color of its printing) + mail (as in blackmail), from Middle English male (rent or tribute), from Old English mal (agreement, pay), from Old Norse mal (agreement). Earliest documented use: 1983.
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GREENMALL - a place to buy flowers, vegetables, seedings, grass, sod, and other organics, along with the tools and supplies useful in nurturing them, with many vendors in one market

AGREE'N'MAIL - what you do with the contract from an online company

GREEDMAIL - spam