Words and phrases that have a meaning related to extortion: (127 results)
Often used in the same context:
blackmail, kidnapping, bribery, racketeering, mafia, bribe, drug trafficking, criminal, loan sharking, ransom, smuggling, money laundering, intimidation, embezzlement, conspiracy, harassment, banditry, mulcting, abduction, sabotage, gangsters, gunrunning, thievery, forgery, tax evasion, criminality, malversation, loanshark, prostitution, rubout, corruption, launder, mob, dacoity, exaction, kickback, underworld, drug cartel, scam, payoffs, mafioso, robberies, trafficking, theft, shakedown, wiretapper, vendetta, coercion, collusion, murder, black marketeering, informer, standover, bootlegging, slander, fraud, misappropriation, payola, sexual harassment, assassinations, cheating, cosa nostra, defamation, illicit, absconding, highhandedness, pilfering, drug peddler, blackmailers, lawlessness, swindling, rape, crime, racketing, mobsters, accomplices, gambino, brazen, vigilante, molestation, retaliation, supari, brigandage, kidnappers, abscam, druglord, counterfeiting, hijacking, armed robbery, defalcation, misdealing, looting, quid pro quo, carjacking, marcosian, pickpocketing, piracies, credit mobilier, indictment, hirelings, sicilian mafia, perjury, extortions, exactions, profiteering, spoliation, impositions, plundering, peculation, pillage, confiscation, bullying, dishonesty, favoritism
More specific:
protection, tribute
Appears in the definition of:
abu sayyaf, bearer of the sword, blackmail, fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise, pentagon gang, racket, racketeer, shakedown
More general:
Also try:felony, overcharge
— Adjectives for extortion: such, official, political, financial, petty, further, systematic, much, fiscal, cruel, papal, more...
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