An exactor, extortioner; an oppressor.

(a) A prosecutor; a plaintiff; (b) an exactor, an oppressor. Cf. ask, v. 16, asking, n. 5 6. Obsolete.

One who practises or is given to extortion.

One who makes illegal or unjustifiable exactions; an extortioner, oppressor.

A parasite, sponger; an extortioner.

One who pillages or plunders; an extortioner. cunning shaver n. a swindler, sharper.

figurative. A rapacious person; an extortioner; one who preys upon society. In early times distinctly transferred, and used synonymously with the…

figurative. A person who preys upon another's money, possessions, or other resources; an extortioner; a sponger; spec. a tax-collector.

an extortioner.

One who oppresses people by extortionate or niggardly methods; an extortioner. Now rare.

One who extorts; = extorter, n.

One who enforces payment of (dues); also one who demands more than his due, an extortioner. Const. of; = exactor, n. 1 2.

One who extorts. Const. of.

A pit, gulf. Hence. An insatiable extortioner or glutton (so in Italian).

An extorter. Cf. writhing, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. (Cf. shark, n.2) Applied to persons, with allusion to the predatory habits and voracity of the shark; one who enriches himself by…

transferred. A person of a malignant and loathsome character, esp. one who preys ruthlessly upon others; a vile and cruel exactor or extortioner…

One who extorts money. U.S.

One who flays; also figurative one who ‘fleeces’ or practises extortion.

One who extorts something from another; an extortioner.

Allusively. An extortionate usurer. Also: a Jew; a pawnbroker; in U.S. (with lower-case initial), an abusive term for a moneylender; = loan-shark n.…