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 extortion [ik'stɒ:ʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 勒索, 敲诈, 强取

[经] 勒索, 强夺


  1. Excessive or unjust demand; extortion.
    强索过分的或不公正的要求；勒索
  2. A dishonest business or practice, especially one that obtains money through fraud or extortion.
    敲诈不诚实的生意或行为，尤指通过欺诈或勒索得到钱
  3. He faces trial on extortion charges.
    他将因被指控敲诈而受审。


extortion
[ noun ]
  1. an exorbitant charge

    2. <noun.possession>
  2. unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority)

    3. <noun.act>
    the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty
  3. the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)

    4. <noun.act>


Extortion \Ex*tor"tion\, n. [F. extorsion.]
1. The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting
anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any
undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.

2. (Law) The offense committed by an officer who corruptly
claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of
value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it
is due. --Abbott.

3. That which is extorted or exacted by force.

Syn: Oppression; rapacity; exaction; overcharge.

  1. The Viacom lawsuit claimed that the agreement, which the suit called "a form of extortion known as greenmail," constituted one the illegal acts needed for establishing a pattern of racketeering under that law.
  2. A jury convicted them last year of extortion and both were sentenced to three years in prison with the recommendation they be released on parole after serving six months.
  3. Panama's attorney Gregory Craig said the lawsuit will allege murder, grand theft and extortion by Noriega.
  4. Scarfo, who heads the Phildadelphia-Southern New Jersey Mafia, is already serving a 14-year sentence in a $1 million extortion case and faces at least 40 more years in a federal racketeering case.
  5. The former governor is appealing the conspiracy and extortion counts.
  6. Acting City Council President Ben Woods was convicted Monday of an array of racketeering and extortion charges, just hours after the veteran politician resigned from the council.
  7. Yet the police can see military personnel driving new cars that it would take more than a lifetime's salary to buy. The police say that they do not tolerate extortion and bribery.
  8. The three Provenzano brothers, Anthony, Salvatore and Nunzio, all have been imprisoned for a variety of crimes, including racketeering and extortion.
  9. Prosecutors contended he planned to send a bomb and an extortion note demanding $65,000 to a dealer who had repossessed his car.
  10. Biaggi, a highly decorated city police officer from 1942 to 1965, was convicted Aug. 5 of all but one of the 16 counts against him including racketeering, extortion and mail fraud.
  11. He was being held Tuesday on $250,000 bond in the DeKalb County jail pending a Feb. 17 hearing on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated assault and theft by extortion.
  12. Tucker took over a morale-shattered department, reeling from extortion convictions of 34 people, including a deputy commissioner, in January 1986.
  13. The elder Biaggi, who represented the Bronx, was convicted of 15 counts of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion and receiving bribes for squeezing $1.8 million in stocks and cash from Wedtech.
  14. The price was denounced as extortion by the lodge, by the leftist Farmer Workers' Party and by Brendan McMahon, a member of the Fine Gael Anti-Communist League in Southern Ireland.
  15. Documents captured by the security forces apparently show that the ELN gained nearly Dollars 30m from kidnapping and extortion in 1991.
  16. McCormick's acceptance of money in violation of state law is additional evidence of extortion, the appeals court said.
  17. Police allege that the elder Scarfo ran the Philadelphia-southern New Jersey Mafia family from his home in Atlantic City, N.J., before his arrest in the unrelated extortion case in 1986.
  18. But Mr. Millard insists, "I found myself saying no 10 times a week" to extortion attempts.
  19. The Italian state television network RAI reported investigators were looking into the possibility that the son was murdered as a warning to Cutolo from rival clans dealing in drug trafficking and extortion.
  20. One of the attempted extortion counts alleged that Tonkovich tried to sell his influence on the gambling bill to Resorts International Inc. in 1986.
  21. Morris Levy, president of Roulette Records, and two associates _ Howard Fisher and Dominick Canterino _ were convicted of two counts each of conspiring to commit extortion.
  22. There's all kinds of debris down there." Mexico City's intelligence police had weathered accusations from ordinary citizens of extortion, kidnapping, torture, even murder _ surviving repeated calls for its dismantling.
  23. He declined to give further details but said the extortion might have been aimed at the Transit Authority, which operates the subway system.
  24. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum five-year sentence and each of the extortion counts carries up to 20 years.
  25. Five months later, Mr. Montoya and three other legislators were identified as having accepted money from a federal sting operation aimed at exposing extortion in the state government.
  26. Charleston attorney James Lees, who represents Mr. Kizer, said his client was "a victim of extortion."
  27. "You (expletive), you're not my partner; you don't tell me how to spend my money," Mrs. Helmsley once said, according to a former underling who was a prosecution witness at her federal trial on extortion and tax fraud charges.
  28. On Wednesday, a judge sentenced former Southern District Highway Commissioner Bob Joiner to six years in prison for extortion and fined the 59-year-old Waynesboro man $100,000 for tax evasion.
  29. Americas Watch said in a report made public Wednesday that the war on drugs is often used as a pretext for murder, torture and extortion.
  30. The investigation also found that on-site inspectors split their take with supervisors, who allegedly would punish inspectors who were reluctant to share the extortion money with them, authorities said.
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