Similar words: extort, proportional representation, portion, abortion, apportion, apportioned, proportion, proportional. Meaning: [ɪk'stɔːʃn] 
n. 1. an exorbitant charge 2. unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) 3. the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence).
n. 1. an exorbitant charge 2. unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) 3. the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence). 
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61. The Treaty of Shimonoseki alone earned Japan 230 million taels of silver in extortion money, about four and a half times its annual national revenue.
62. A source who leaked information about the letter to the Procuratorial Daily Newspaper said Zhu, writing just before the killings, had accused Lingling court officials of attempted extortion.
63. Blackmail is my Life (1968) follows the fortunes of a crew of hustlers who attempt to graduate from small-time extortion scams to taking down the yakuza and corrupt government officials.
64. Besides killing, burying alive and terrible taxation, the people of Anyang also had to endure extortion, blackmail and kidnaping.
65. Home invasion robberies and extortion of businesses became serious problems in the Vietnamese neighborhoods.
66. From the objective aspect, the defiance and affray crime is similar to crimes like robbery, extortion, intentional injury that it can be easily confused in enforcement practice of law.
67. Unless all your clients are paralyzed, any prostitute caught charging someone for a hand job should be sued for extortion.
68. In process of synthesizing N oxidized pyridine, rare earth hetero polyacid was used as catalyst and extortion was canceled.
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