Usually means: Coercion using threats for gain.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. blackmail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blackmail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blackmail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blackmail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blackmail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blackmail, blackmail: Wordnik
  7. blackmail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blackmail: Wiktionary
  9. blackmail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blackmail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blackmail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blackmail: Dictionary.com
  13. blackmail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blackmail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blackmail (Law & Order), Blackmail (The Office), Blackmail (album), Blackmail (band), Blackmail (disambiguation), Blackmail (play), Blackmail (webisodes), Blackmail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blackmail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blackmail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blackmail: Rhymezone
  19. blackmail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blackmail: Free Dictionary
  21. blackmail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. blackmail: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Blackmail: World Wide Words

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. blackmail: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. blackmail: Law.com Dictionary
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  5. blackmail: Legal dictionary

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  1. Blackmail: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. blackmail: Idioms
  3. blackmail: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. blackmail: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See blackmailed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.
noun:  (by extension) Compromising material that can be used to extort someone.
noun:  (BDSM) A type of roleplay where the submissive shares information that may be extorted by the dominant.
noun:  (archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
noun:  (England law, historical) Black rent; rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
verb:  (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
verb:  (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.

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