Term: greenmail: (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business
Candidate hypernym: shark repellent: a measure undertaken by a corporation to discourage unwanted takeover attempts → 1
Candidate hypernym: plowwright: a workman who makes and repairs plows → 0
Candidate hypernym: spirit: the vital principle or animating force within living things → 0
Candidate hypernym: cuculiformes: cuckoos; touracos; etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: porgy: important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide → 0
Candidate hypernym: canthus: either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet → 0
Candidate hypernym: neuritis: inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function → 0
Candidate hypernym: looseness: the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints → 0
Candidate hypernym: track: any road or path affording passage especially a rough one → 0
Candidate hypernym: carpinus: mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: monohydrate: a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound → 0