Whitemail vs Null - What's the difference?
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(business) A tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party
* {{quote-book, 1991, Michael T. Jacobs, Short-term America: The Causes and Cures of Our Business Myopia
, passage=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.}}
Persuasion based on positive rather than negative effects
* {{quote-book, 2000, , The Golden Age
, passage=Certainly FDR was a master of his own kind of whitemail and practiced it on the likes of Harry Hopkins.}}
To persuade
* {{quote-news, 2000, January 2, Howard Manly, Tuning in Memories: Channel Surfing Comes With a Hefty Price Tag, Boston Globe
, passage=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. }}
* {{quote-book, 2000, , The Golden Age
, passage=The ability to whitemail an emotional older man like my father into falling in love with him so that he would help him rise.}}
(ironic) To blackmail a dark-skinned person
* {{quote-news, 1973, January 1, , Avenging "Whitemail", Time Magazine
, passage=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 ." }}
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between whitemail and null
is that whitemail is (business) a tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whitemail
is to persuade.whitemail
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.