Word: greenmailers
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: green
mai
lers
Definition: Plural of greenmailer; the action of purchasing enough shares in a firm to challenge a firm's leadership with the threat of a hostile takeover to force the target company to buy the purchased shares back at a premium in order to prevent the potential takeover
Morphemes:
Affix: green
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
Affix: back
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A support or resource in reserve.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: bac
Language: fr
Decoded: bac
PoS: Noun
Meaning: vat
Affix: black
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
Affix: mail
Language: en
Meaning: a piece of money
Affix: -er
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ārius
Language: la
Decoded: -arius
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form adjectives from nouns or numerals.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.