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| Unrelated: magnetic core memory: (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories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