| 单词 | protection fee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprotection fee protection fee n. a fee paid to secure protection (sense 1c). ΚΠ 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 514 They never once think of paying their protection-fees. 1937 Winnipeg Free Press 11 Jan. 1/6 Jack Dempsey..has been ‘shaken down’ for $285 in protection fees for his fashionable Eighth avenue restaurant by racketeers. 1993 Washington Post (National Weekly ed.) 12 Apr. 17/2 The number of full-time gangsters dropped by about 10 percent..and countless businesses were able to stop paying protection fees to the local yakuza affiliates. < as lemmas |
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