| 单词 | protection money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprotection money protection money n. money paid to secure protection (sense 1c). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > protection money black rent1423 blackmail1530 protection money1703 protection rent1860 Danegeld1911 juice1935 ice1951 1703 N. Battely Somner's Antiq. Canterbury (rev. ed.) 4 The Jurisdiction and Protection-Money whereof belongs to the King; but as yet he has never had it. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. VI. 424 Jews also who are very numerous here have a large synagogue, but pay the sum of 2000 ducats per annum as protection-money. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xv. 153 ‘And what is black-mail?’ ‘A sort of protection-money that Low-country gentlemen and heritors, lying near the Highlands, pay to some Highland chief, that he may neither do them harm himself, nor suffer it to be done to them by others.’ View more context for this quotation 1872 Petersburg (Va.) Index 31 Dec. There is not a gambling house, large or small, that does not have to pay protection money to an association, the names of the members of which I could give. 1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xx. 289 Shopkeepers in the town and farmers in the country had to pay secret ‘protection money’ to the local captains; if they refused to pay there would be a raid at night by masked men, their house would be burned down and their families murdered. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xiii. 134 Businessmen who refused to pay protection money had their premises pipe-bombed. < as lemmas |
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