Extortion
noun
The practice of obtaining something, like money, through force or threats.
She was charged with extortion after forcing her coworker to give her money under the threat of revealing her secret.
Often appears as...
- accused of extortion
- blackmail and extortion
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
An excessive or inflated price.
Most people consider charging $5 for a single bottle of water to be extortion.
Often appears as...
- price extortion
- rampant extortion
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Disapproving
noun
An act of exploiting or utilising someone unfairly for one's advantage.
Underpaying workers for their labour is a form of extortion.
Often appears as...
- worker extortion
- economic extortion
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Disapproving
noun
The practice of obtaining something, like money, through force or threats.
She was charged with extortion after forcing her coworker to give her money under the threat of revealing her secret.
Often appears as...
- accused of extortion
- blackmail and extortion
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
An excessive or inflated price.
Most people consider charging $5 for a single bottle of water to be extortion.
Often appears as...
- price extortion
- rampant extortion
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
An act of exploiting or utilising someone unfairly for one's advantage.
Underpaying workers for their labour is a form of extortion.
Often appears as...
- worker extortion
- economic extortion
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Criminal Connotation
Extortion is a legal term often associated with criminal activity and wrongdoing.
The gang's extortion of local businesses led to numerous arrests.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Violent
Extortion can involve threats of harm, but it might also be subtle, like a threat to damage someone's reputation.
He committed extortion by threatening to leak their private emails.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Nature
Extortion often involves money or property, but can also include favors or actions.
The politician was found guilty of extortion by demanding free services from businesses.
Pro Tip 1/3Criminal Connotation
Extortion is a legal term often associated with criminal activity and wrongdoing.
The gang's extortion of local businesses led to numerous arrests.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Violent
Extortion can involve threats of harm, but it might also be subtle, like a threat to damage someone's reputation.
He committed extortion by threatening to leak their private emails.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Nature
Extortion often involves money or property, but can also include favors or actions.
The politician was found guilty of extortion by demanding free services from businesses.
Pro Tip 1/3Criminal Connotation
Extortion is a legal term often associated with criminal activity and wrongdoing.
The gang's extortion of local businesses led to numerous arrests.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Violent
Extortion can involve threats of harm, but it might also be subtle, like a threat to damage someone's reputation.
He committed extortion by threatening to leak their private emails.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Nature
Extortion often involves money or property, but can also include favors or actions.
The politician was found guilty of extortion by demanding free services from businesses.
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How jails extort the...
and when it came time for me to actually see it and to go visit Ferguson's jail, I'm not sure what I was expecting to see, but I wasn't expecting this. It's an ordinary government building. It could be a post office or a school. It reminded me that these illegal extortion schemes
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How does money...
that Capone had earned from illegal gambling, bootlegging, brothels, and extortion, would have served as evidence of his crimes. But the money was nowhere to be found. Capone and his associates had hidden it through investments in various businesses
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because showing can identify you as one of the most notorious and feared members of Japanese society they're called Yakuza the gangsters of Japan they inhabit a world of drug run prostitution extortion and other crimes
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Jose Miguel Sokoloff:...
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- they have financed their war by kidnapping, by extortion, by getting into the drug trade, by illegal mining. There has been terrorism. There have been random bombs.
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Reducing corruption...
who extort money from everyday hardworking citizens. But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading desperate lives. And so for them, extortion or corruption is a good way to make a living.
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Crips rackets include extortion gambling and drugs well that's the life of a convict you got to survive in this institution and basically survive when you're not free is by all means then and
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extortion deal give us candy or will trash your house store keepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks and children were encouraged to travel door-to-door for
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one of the most notorious and feared members of Japanese society they're called Yakuza the gangsters of Japan's they inhabit a world of drug right prostitution extortion and other
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of the most notorious and feared members of Japanese society they're called Yakuza the gangsters of Japan they inhabit a world of drug run prostitution extortion and other crimes
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have committed or have been charged with money-related robberies, burglaries, fraud, larceny, extortion -- and the list goes on. Check this a typical incarcerated person
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How jails extort the...
and when it came time for me to actually see it and to go visit Ferguson's jail, I'm not sure what I was expecting to see, but I wasn't expecting this. It's an ordinary government building. It could be a post office or a school. It reminded me that these illegal extortion schemes
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How does money...
that Capone had earned from illegal gambling, bootlegging, brothels, and extortion, would have served as evidence of his crimes. But the money was nowhere to be found. Capone and his associates had hidden it through investments in various businesses
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Full Body Tattoo PIPE...
because showing can identify you as one of the most notorious and feared members of Japanese society they're called Yakuza the gangsters of Japan they inhabit a world of drug run prostitution extortion and other crimes
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Jose Miguel Sokoloff:...
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- they have financed their war by kidnapping, by extortion, by getting into the drug trade, by illegal mining. There has been terrorism. There have been random bombs.
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Reducing corruption...
who extort money from everyday hardworking citizens. But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading desperate lives. And so for them, extortion or corruption is a good way to make a living.
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Prison Predators PIPE...
Crips rackets include extortion gambling and drugs well that's the life of a convict you got to survive in this institution and basically survive when you're not free is by all means then and
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Halloween History PIPE...
extortion deal give us candy or will trash your house store keepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks and children were encouraged to travel door-to-door for
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Full-Body Tattoo Taboo?...
one of the most notorious and feared members of Japanese society they're called Yakuza the gangsters of Japan's they inhabit a world of drug right prostitution extortion and other
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Full Body Tattoos PIPE...
of the most notorious and feared members of Japanese society they're called Yakuza the gangsters of Japan they inhabit a world of drug run prostitution extortion and other crimes
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How I learned to read --...
have committed or have been charged with money-related robberies, burglaries, fraud, larceny, extortion -- and the list goes on. Check this a typical incarcerated person
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Perianne Boring
American Businesswoman
The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim's data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent third-party digital currency exchangers, or any other third-party financial institution, would be an utterly unwarranted and unjust misinterpretation both of law and policy.
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Jan Brewer
American Politician
We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!
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Jan Brewer
American Politician
And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.
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David Boreanaz
American Actor
I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.
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Sucheta Dalal
Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.
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Rafael Correa
Politician
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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Benny Gantz
Israeli Politician
I'm not subject to extortion under any circumstances.
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Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
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Perianne Boring
American Businesswoman
The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim's data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent third-party digital currency exchangers, or any other third-party financial institution, would be an utterly unwarranted and unjust misinterpretation both of law and policy.
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Jan Brewer
American Politician
We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!
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Jan Brewer
American Politician
And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.
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David Boreanaz
American Actor
I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.
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Sucheta Dalal
Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.
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Rafael Correa
Politician
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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Benny Gantz
Israeli Politician
I'm not subject to extortion under any circumstances.
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Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
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