Etymology
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From Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō.
Pronunciation
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extortion (plural extortions)
- The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
- Synonym: blackmail
1986 February 17, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
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Translations
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the practice of extorting money or other property
- Arabic: اِبْتِزَاز m (ibtizāz)
- Armenian: շորթում (hy) (šortʿum)
- Belarusian: вымага́нне n (vymahánnje), здзíрства n (zdzírstva), вымага́льніцтва n (vymahálʹnictva), шанта́ж m (šantáž)
- Bulgarian: изну́дване (bg) n (iznúdvane), шанта́ж (bg) m (šantáž)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 勒索 (zh) (lèsuǒ), 敲詐/敲诈 (zh) (qiāozhà)
- Czech: vydírání (cs) n
- Danish: afpresning c
- Dutch: afpersing (nl) f
- Esperanto: eldevigo
- Estonian: väljapressimine (et)
- Finnish: kiristys (fi), kiskonta (fi)
- French: extorsion (fr) f
- Galician: extorsión (gl) f
- Georgian: გამოძალვა (gamoʒalva)
- German: Erpressung (de) f, Wucher (de) m, Extorsion f
- Greek: χρηματολογία (el) f (chrimatología), εκβιασμός (el) m (ekviasmós)
- Hungarian: zsarolás (hu), kicsikarás, extorzió
- Italian: estorsione (it) f
- Japanese: 強要 (ja) (きょうよう, kyōyō), ゆすり (ja) (yusuri), たかり (takari)
- Kazakh: бопсалаушылық (bopsalauşylyq)
- Korean: 강요(強要) (ko) (gang'yo)
- Latin: repetundae f pl
- Macedonian: изнуда f (iznuda), уцена f (ucena)
- Middle English: extorcion
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utpressing
- Persian: اخاذی (fa) (axxâzi)
- Polish: wymuszenie n, zdzierstwo n
- Portuguese: extorsão (pt) f
- Romanian: stoarcere (ro) f
- Russian: вымога́тельство (ru) n (vymogátelʹstvo), шанта́ж (ru) m (šantáž)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: и̏знуда f, у̏цена f, у̏цјена f
- Roman: ȉznuda (sh) f, ȕcena (sh) f, ȕcjena (sh) f
- Slovak: vydieranie n
- Slovene: izsiljevanje n
- Spanish: extorsión (es) f
- Swedish: utpressning (sv) c
- Tagalog: pangingikil, kikil (tl)
- Turkish: şantaj (tr), haraç (tr)
- Ukrainian: вимага́ння n (vymahánnja), зди́рство n (zdýrstvo), шанта́ж m (šantáž)
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