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9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (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
originBlend of greenback + blackmail.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- germinal 11
- gleamier 11
- liegeman 11
- maligner 11
- malinger 11
- geminal 10
- germane 10
- germina 10
- gleamer 10
- gleeman 10
- gremial 10
- gremlin 10