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: measure: any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal → 1
Candidate hypernym: flammulina: a genus of agarics → 0
Candidate hypernym: fur: a garment made of the dressed hairy coat of a mammal → 0
Candidate hypernym: oxymoron: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') → 0
Candidate hypernym: intranet: a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web software → 0
Candidate hypernym: magnetic core memory: (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories → 0
Candidate hypernym: suslik: rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel → 0
Candidate hypernym: bag of tricks: a supply of ways of accomplishing something → 0
Candidate hypernym: concentrate: a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water → 0
Candidate hypernym: burgoo: thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: coontie: small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot → 0