whitemail noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •A tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party.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. — 1991 •Persuasion based on positive rather than negative effects.Certainly FDR was a master of his own kind of whitemail and practiced it on the likes of Harry Hopkins. — 2000 verb2 •To persuade.The ability to whitemail an emotional older man like my father into falling in love with him so that he would help him rise. — 2000 •Of a white person: to carry out blackmail. formswhitemailed · whitemailing · whitemails
