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| blackmail |
payment forced by threats to reveal damaging information; extortion. [1/3 definitions] |
| extortionist |
a person who commits or practices extortion. |
| racket1 |
illegal activities, such as extortion and fraud, carried out by an organized group of people, or an organization directing such activities. [1/3 definitions] |
| racketeer |
a person involved in an organization that carries out illegal activities such as fraud and extortion. |
| racketeering |
the crime or practice of conducting a business that engages in illegal activity, as, for example, extortion, counterfeiting, and fraud. |
| shakedown |
an attempt to get something, esp. money, by threat of violence or of revealing a discrediting secret; instance of blackmail or extortion. [1/4 definitions] |
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