exaction

From Middle English exaccioun, exaccion, from Middle French exaction, from Old French, from Latin exāctiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzækʃən/

exaction (countable and uncountable, plural exactions)

1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force

   the exaction to tribute or of obedience

2. extortion.
3. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exaction”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “exaction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cinoxate

Borrowed from Latin exactiōnem.

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exaction f (plural exactions)

1. extortion
2. exaction

• “exaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

exaction

1. alternative form of exaccioun