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Extortion
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Extortion
An illegal act in which one coerces another into providing money or something else of value. For example, one may extort money from a business by threat of force. Extortion historically has been common in organized crime.
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We live in a remote canyon where very few are willing to pay the extortionary sums demanded by the power company to string electrical lines over craggy peaks and wooded valleys to their secluded homes, and as a consequence of this challenging geography we know more off-grid folks than we can count on our collective fingers and toes.
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The department's bad reputation opens the city up to extortionary claims.
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For example,, a consideration of those instances in which the state enables particular private interests to acquire extortionary gains in the Old Testament would seem to be fertile ground for drawing connections to research in the modern economics of corruption literature.
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