Usually means: Demands payment through coercion, threats.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. extorts: Merriam-Webster
  2. extorts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extorts: Vocabulary.com
  4. extorts: Wordnik
  5. extorts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extorts: Wiktionary
  7. extorts: Dictionary.com
  8. extorts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. extorts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extorts: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. extorts: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extort)

verb:  (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
verb:  (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
verb:  (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
adjective:  (obsolete) extorted; obtained by extortion.
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