Force
Shakedown
Shakedown noun - Extortion of money (as by blackmail).
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Force and shakedown are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Force" instead a noun "Shakedown".
Nearby Word: shake
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Kert, the otherwise even-tempered police officer who works for Chief Crawford, is Momma's catspaw on the force and orders the shakedown of the B&S.
Source: Film / Cleopatra Jones -
Due to a top-level political marriage with the the far more more militarily apt Federated Suns, the Lyran armed forces eventually got a good shakedown from their new countrymen and became a much more effective force.
Source: Feudal Future
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