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Definition of extort in English: extortverb ɪkˈstɔːtɛkˈstɔːtɪkˈstɔrt [with object]Obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means. he attempted to extort money from the company Example sentencesExamples - There are many registered cases of police using the threat of arrest to extort a lot of money from the husband's family.
- Many corrupt immigration officials extorted vast quantities of money from terrified refugees.
- They came out beating their chests and proclaiming that no matter how much it cost them they were not going to succumb to Bailey's attempt at extorting money from them by the threat of a libel action.
- This morning the proprietors instructed a senior Bulawayo lawyer to respond to the police's attempt to extort money in this way.
- Sometimes we are talking about criminals when they are extorting money out of children on the way home with threats and violence and that should be dealt with as a criminal act.
- For most, imprisonment at home would equate to unspeakable living conditions, physical torture, and false confessions extorted by threats.
- At checkpoints throughout the province, the security forces openly extort bribes.
- I discovered she had been extorting vast sums of money from at least two of her very rich - and, in one case, very senile - residents.
- Their threats extort facilities and subsidies from the regimes that increase their strength and influence.
- You could even stop extorting millions of dollars out of municipalities or forcing them to build new stadiums.
- Federal forces routinely extort money from detainees' relatives as a condition for release.
- In the past, they had to hire consultants who extorted a lot of money from them.
- All the unions did was form cartels and use the threat of violence to keep competitors at bay and extort some wealth from the capitalists.
- The administration proceeded to extort large sums of money, ostensibly to repay this cost, and the states ended up following suit.
- The two were eventually netted by the FBI, but the attempt to extort money from her was hard on her and her children.
- It might be for the money, for the experience, or maybe they were extorted into doing it.
- The police often use torture or the threat of torture to extort money.
- This would bring an end to his many attempts to extort money from organisations on the flimsiest of pretexts.
- Instead the District Attorney's Office and the newspapers focused on allegations that Scalise had extorted vast sums of money from New York's employers.
- Militants assaulted business managers and extorted money they claimed was compensation for unfair dismissals.
Synonyms force, obtain by force, obtain by threat(s), blackmail someone for, extract, exact, coerce, wring, wrest, screw, squeeze, milk, worm something out of someone North American & Australian informal put the bite on someone for archaic rack
Derivatives noun And we ought to prosecute the people who are the extorters. Example sentencesExamples - Berlusconi Says Business Was Victim, Not Extorter.
- Animal-rights activists are exploiting loopholes that, for example, prevent the use of extortion law unless the extorter seeks personal gain.
adjective But corporate executives and shareholders alike should be disturbed by the extortive circumstances in which Jackson appears to have gathered much of their money. Example sentencesExamples - The extortive power of the rebels is easily demonstrated by blowing up the pipeline.
- The threat that ‘THEY will destroy you’ is extortive, and we have seen this in the careers of US Congresspersons who opposed or criticized THEM.
- But the college stood its ground, refusing to yield to these extortive demands.
- Grants, under certain conditions, can also contribute to increased domestic revenue mobilisation which in turn pushes tax administrations towards more extortive and less accountable dealings with tax payers.
Origin Early 16th century: from Latin extort- 'wrested', from the verb extorquere, from ex- 'out' + torquere 'to twist'. torch from Middle English: A torch in the original sense of ‘something soaked in an inflammable substance used to give light’ was often made of twisted hemp or other fibres. This is still the American meaning, and reflects the word's Latin origin, torquere ‘to twist’. Only in British English can torch describe a battery-powered electric lamp, which Americans call a flashlight. A torch song is a sad or sentimental song of unrequited love, whose name, used since the 1920s, comes from the phrase carry a torch for, ‘to love someone who does not love you in return’. The image in pass on the torch, ‘to pass on a tradition, especially one of learning or enlightenment’, is that of the runners in a relay race passing on the torch to each other, as was the custom in the ancient Greek Olympic Games. The Latin source of torch, torquere, is found in a large number of other English words. Most obviously it is the source of the engineer's torque (late 19th century), and the twisted Celtic neck-ring the torc (mid 19th century). Less obviously it is in contort (Late Middle English) ‘twist together’; distort (Late Middle English) ‘twist out of shape’; extort (early 16th century) ‘twist out of’; and retort (Late Middle English) ‘to twist back’ (the chemical apparatus gets its name from its twisted shape). Tortura ‘twisting, torment’ the Latin noun formed from the verb gives us torture and tortuous (both LME), and torment (Middle English). Thwart (Middle English) is an Old Norse word that goes back to the same Indo-European root.
Rhymes abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought Definition of extort in US English: extortverbikˈstôrtɪkˈstɔrt Obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means. he was convicted of trying to extort $1 million from a developer Example sentencesExamples - The police often use torture or the threat of torture to extort money.
- Sometimes we are talking about criminals when they are extorting money out of children on the way home with threats and violence and that should be dealt with as a criminal act.
- Their threats extort facilities and subsidies from the regimes that increase their strength and influence.
- The administration proceeded to extort large sums of money, ostensibly to repay this cost, and the states ended up following suit.
- In the past, they had to hire consultants who extorted a lot of money from them.
- This morning the proprietors instructed a senior Bulawayo lawyer to respond to the police's attempt to extort money in this way.
- The two were eventually netted by the FBI, but the attempt to extort money from her was hard on her and her children.
- Instead the District Attorney's Office and the newspapers focused on allegations that Scalise had extorted vast sums of money from New York's employers.
- They came out beating their chests and proclaiming that no matter how much it cost them they were not going to succumb to Bailey's attempt at extorting money from them by the threat of a libel action.
- All the unions did was form cartels and use the threat of violence to keep competitors at bay and extort some wealth from the capitalists.
- This would bring an end to his many attempts to extort money from organisations on the flimsiest of pretexts.
- For most, imprisonment at home would equate to unspeakable living conditions, physical torture, and false confessions extorted by threats.
- There are many registered cases of police using the threat of arrest to extort a lot of money from the husband's family.
- Militants assaulted business managers and extorted money they claimed was compensation for unfair dismissals.
- At checkpoints throughout the province, the security forces openly extort bribes.
- You could even stop extorting millions of dollars out of municipalities or forcing them to build new stadiums.
- It might be for the money, for the experience, or maybe they were extorted into doing it.
- I discovered she had been extorting vast sums of money from at least two of her very rich - and, in one case, very senile - residents.
- Federal forces routinely extort money from detainees' relatives as a condition for release.
- Many corrupt immigration officials extorted vast quantities of money from terrified refugees.
Synonyms force, obtain by force, obtain by threat, obtain by threats, blackmail someone for, extract, exact, coerce, wring, wrest, screw, squeeze, milk, worm something out of someone
Origin Early 16th century: from Latin extort- ‘wrested’, from the verb extorquere, from ex- ‘out’ + torquere ‘to twist’. |