Whitemail vs False - 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 ." }}
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun whitemail
is (business) a tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party.As a verb whitemail
is to persuade.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.whitemail
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(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}