Extortion
Extortion noun - The exaction of a grossly excessive charge for goods or services.
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Synonyms for Extortion
Threats and extortion are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threats" instead a noun "Extortion".
Threats
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Related pairs
- compulsion and extortion
- compulsion and threats
- force and extortion
- force and threats
- demand and extortion
- demand and threats
- pressure and extortion
- pressure and threats
- fix and extortion
- fix and threats
- oppression and extortion
- oppression and threats
- intimidation and extortion
- intimidation and threats
Both words in one sentence
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Blackmail, extortion, death threatsÂ… are perfectly acceptable means to his eyes.
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In a nutshell, Sexual Extortion is a form of sexual assault wherein financial and/or social threats largely replace physical violence.
Source: Sexual Extortion - Some of Lekain's crimes include causing a massacre, regicide, false imprisonment, rebellion, slave dealing, and extortion of two foreign nations through threats of massacring their peoples via arcane magic.
Source: Aristocrats Are Evil
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