whitemail
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party.
Uncountable
verb
To persuade.
verb
Of a white person: to carry out blackmail.
Example Sentences
- "Whitemail, which also appears unfair to some, may enhance shareholder value if the outside investor is able to influence management in a more positive way than other shareholders could."
- "Certainly FDR was a master of his own kind of whitemail and practiced it on the likes of Harry Hopkins."
- "Major League Baseball whitemailed ESPN into paying a lot more, and the only thing we can be assured of is that the same old products and announcers will come in clearer in 2000 thanks to digital technology."
- "The ability to whitemail an emotional older man like my father into falling in love with him so that he would help him rise."
- "Sweating heavily under the hot lights, he started off with a diatribe against British policy toward Uganda, especially London's recent decision to cancel a $24 million aid program, which Amin dismissed as "whitemailing.""