English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō.
Pronunciation
Noun
extortion (plural extortions)
- The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
- Near-synonym: blackmail
1986 February 17, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
Derived terms
Translations
the practice of extorting money or other property
- Arabic: اِبْتِزَاز (ar) m (ibtizāz)
- Armenian: շորթում (hy) (šortʻum)
- Belarusian: вымага́нне n (vymahánnje), здзíрства n (zdzírstva), вымага́льніцтва n (vymahálʹnictva), шанта́ж m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)
- Bulgarian: изну́дване (bg) n (iznúdvane), шанта́ж (bg) m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)
- 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, malhonestaĵo (eo)
- 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
- Indonesian: pemerasan (id)
- Italian: estorsione (it) f
- Japanese: 強要 (ja) (きょうよう, kyōyō), ゆすり (ja) (yusuri), たかり (ja) (takari)
- Kazakh: бопсалаушылық (bopsalauşylyq)
- Korean: 강요(強要) (ko) (gang'yo)
- Latin: repetundae f pl
- Macedonian: изнуда f (iznuda), уцена f (ucena)
- Malay: peras ugut
- Middle English: extorcion
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utpressing
- Persian: اخاذی (fa) (axxâzi)
- Polish: wymuszenie n, zdzierstwo n
- Portuguese: extorsão (pt) f
- Romanian: extorcare (ro) f
- Russian: вымога́тельство (ru) n (vymogátelʹstvo), шанта́ж (ru) m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)
- 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: зди́рство n (zdýrstvo), вимага́ння n (vymahánnja), ре́кет m (réket, literally “(extortion) racket/racketeering”), шанта́ж m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)
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