グリーンメール

noun

greenmail

A financial term for the practice of buying a large stake in a company and threatening a hostile takeover to force the company to buy back the shares at a premium.

• その投とう資し家かはグリーンメールを仕し掛かけて、巨きょ額がくの利り益えきを得えた。

  The investor engaged in greenmail and made a huge profit.