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Meanings of extortion in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "shakedown"
Examples for "shakedown"
1
He certainly has the players required to feature in the final shakedown.
2
Her featherbed was twice as wide and lofty as my straw-and-rag-filled shakedown.
3
I wrapped up Solace and drew her to me on the shakedown.
4
Would have been stupid to do until their shakedown run was over.
5
They gave me a shakedown for the night in the cargo.
1
Nor is the tithe any longer the only exaction demanded by the Prophet.
2
The reputed exaction of his executive chamber was a sore spot to him.
3
Further application to the King put an end to this exaction.-Ed.
4
Nor was this exaction unreasonable in view of the emergency.
5
Let us see in what terms Dr. Kuyper justifies the Boer policy of exaction:
Usage of extortion in inglês
1
Violence, extortion, and intimidation continued throughout the year. The issue divides Nepal.
2
Yet extortion often costs him as much as or more than taxes.
3
Five months later, police arrested two KPK commissioners for extortion and bribery.
4
Later he handled a company facing extortion by the same insurgent group.
5
I'm truly impressed by your legal knowledge, but extortion is a crime.
6
But they still hold scores more hostages for political leverage and extortion.
7
The fraud count and one extortion count carry maximum 20-year prison terms.
8
The Republican platform permits extortion; but tariff extortion is robbery by law.
9
Others say the motive could be as simple as robbery or extortion.
10
Vespasian's father was a tax collector; he has extortion in the blood.'
11
He is also charged racketeering and extortion for other alleged criminal activity.
12
And, as a rule, masters and mistresses give in to the extortion.
13
Needless to relate the details either of the confession or its extortion.
14
What they're effecting is a kind of extortion of river merchants, really.
15
What dogged him though was the flurry of blackmail and extortion claims.
16
I mean to stand this siege of extortion to the last gasp.
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Translations for extortion
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português
catalão
Extortion through the time
Extortion across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common