Whitemail
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Whitemail is a noun meaning (business) A tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party.
Meaning
(business) A tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party.
More Meanings
- Persuasion based on positive rather than negative effects.
- To persuade.
- (ironic) Of a white person: to carry out blackmail.
Example Sentences
Certainly FDR was a master of his own kind of whitemail and practiced it on the likes of Harry Hopkins.
The ability to whitemail an emotional older man like my father into falling in love with him so that he would help him rise.
Whitemail, which also appears unfair to some, may enhance shareholder value if the outside investor is able to influence management in a more positive way than other shareholders could.
Major League Baseball whitemailed ESPN into paying a lot more, and the only thing we can be assured of is that the same old products and announcers will come in clearer in 2000 thanks to digital technology.
Word Forms
- whitemails
- whitemailing
- whitemailed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include greenmail, bear hug, flip-in, take-under, workshare, freezeout.
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