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Meanings of extort in anglès
portuguès
extorquir català
extorsionar espanyol
sacar Synonyms
Examples for "squeeze"
Examples for "squeeze"
1
Low energy prices squeeze investment in the oil industry, reducing future supplies.
2
American Express' financing costs have be hurt by a global credit squeeze.
3
Japan's consumer finance squeeze culminated this year in a state-engineered credit crunch.
4
Japan's consumer finance squeeze culminated this year with a state-engineered credit crunch.
5
Despite the supermarkets' assurances, food suppliers fear a future squeeze on margins.
1
You shouldn't need any special gear; a standard double rack should suffice.
2
I placed the letter in the rack in your room, immediately afterwards.
3
Place the filled and capped containers on the rack in the sterilizer.
4
Once we even received, from America of course, a cat hat-and-coat rack.
5
First, you need to rack up over one hundred eighty thousand points.
1
This Haslerig family demonstrates that you can wring success out of anything.
2
The Colonel's occasional efforts to wring information out of her yielded nothing.
3
You could almost wring water out of the air in our tent.
4
It outmaneuvers rivals and strikes creative financing deals to wring out value.
5
Rovio certainly knows how to wring the most out of a franchise.
1
Used a spoon to gouge out the eyes. Vin's hands stopped moving.
2
The ground was sand, and easy to gouge up with the shingle.
3
Them rods was the most ridicklus sham I ever see-a regular gouge.
4
But that's as clear a cut an eye gouge I have seen.
5
Where the diseased spot appeared, it was cut out with a gouge.
Usage of extort in anglès
1
They carry out hit-and-run attacks on police and extort money from businesses.
2
Nor would I ever try to attempt to extort my child's fathers.
3
Some take advantage of the absence of rules to extort their clients.
4
In May, Cardenas began investigating whether Gutierrez tried to extort Southern Copper.
5
But no time was allowed Horry to extort the provisions as suggested.
6
Such an apparent contradiction would be very likely to extort further questions.
7
But after a brief kiss he seemed to extort enthusiasm from her.
8
But he could extort no sign, either of consent or of defiance.
9
The magistrates, however, interfered, and endeavored to extort a confession from Goethe.
10
Call it, as you may with truth, an attempt to extort money.
11
It was a fraud, an imposition, an impudent plot to extort money.
12
Sometimes they'll file charges just to extort a bribe, knowing we'll pay.
13
I hope you don't think I kept it to extort a price.
14
Can he extort one noble thought from his weak and indigent brain?
15
Then you mean to try and extort a confession from Laleli herself?
16
If Joshua didn't always try to extort clients they might win more business.
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Translations for extort
portuguès
Extort through the time
Extort across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common