英语词汇“sokaiya”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sokaiya

释义

‖ sokaiya, n.|ˈsoːkaija|
Pl. unchanged.
[Jap., f. sōkai general meeting + -ya dealer.]
Usu. in pl. ‘A person who holds a small number of shares of stock in a number of companies and attempts to extort money from them by threatening to cause trouble at the general meeting of the stockholders’ (Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dict. (1974)).
1971Newsweek 14 June 49/1 The only blemish on the smooth proceedings has been the irritating presence of parasitic sokaiya, professional hecklers and blackmailers whose threats to disrupt meetings or to reveal embarrassing bits of information have forced management to part with millions of dollars every year in payoffs.1980Times 19 May 23/6 The Sokaiya—Japan's unique group of strong-arm gangsters who can be hired to control or disrupt shareholders' meetings.1983Internat. Managem. Sept. 30/2 The first Sokaiya—the name translates as shareholder's meeting man—concentrated on simple blackmail.1984Fortune 5 Mar. 8/1 This year sokaiya switched sides and attacked management because Sony, obeying a year-old government reform outlawing the practice, didn't pay them a fee to cooperate.

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