Usually means: Demanding payment through threats, coercion.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. extortion: Merriam-Webster
  2. extortion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extortion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extortion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extortion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extortion, extortion: Wordnik
  7. extortion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extortion: Wiktionary
  9. extortion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extortion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extortion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extortion: Dictionary.com
  13. extortion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extortion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extortion (band), Extortion (disambiguation), Extortion (film), Extortion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Extortion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. extortion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. extortion: Rhymezone
  19. Extortion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. extortion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. extortion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. extortion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. extortion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. extortion: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. extortion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. extortion: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Extortion: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. extortion: Legal dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extortion: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extortion: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. extortion: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See extortioner as well.)

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noun:  The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.

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