Look up: black-mail

1. Black Mail
   When rents were reserved payable in work, grain, and the like, they were called reditus nigri, or black mail, to distinguish them from white rents or blanch farms, or such as were paid in money.
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2. Black-Mail
   Black-mail or blackmail was a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or the like, anciently paid, in the north of England and in Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, to be protected by them from pillage. Blackmail was levied in the districts bordering the Highlands of Scotland until th...
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3. blackmail
   [n] - extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information 2. [v] - exert pressure on someone through threats 3. [v] - obtain through threats
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4. blackmail
   Criminal offence of extorting money with menaces or threats of detrimental action, such as exposure of some misconduct on the part of the victim. ...
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5. blackmail
   A specific case of extortion in which a person by giving notice that he will make known,report or reveal information which is disadvantageous to another person or another who is closely related to that other person,causes that other person to purchase his silence for a financial consideration. Category: Law
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6. Blackmail
   Making an unwarranted demand with menaces. (Crimes against property)
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7. Blackmail
   Black'mail` noun [ Black + mail a piece of money.] 1. A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, ...
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8. Blackmail
   Black'mail` transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blackmailed ; present participle & verbal noun Blackmailing .] To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily ha...
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9. blackmail
   noun extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
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10. blackmail
    blackjack verb exert pressure on someone through threats
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11. blackmail
    verb obtain through threats
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12. Blackmail
    • (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure. • (n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to `white rent`, which paid in silver. • (v. t.) To ext...
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13. Blackmail
    (from the article `Allgood, Sara`) Allgood`s film debut took place in the first British talkie, Blackmail (1929), and her other English-made films include The Passing of the Third ... Montage may also be applied to the combination of sounds for artistic expression. Dialogue, music, and sound effects may be combined in complex ... ......
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14. blackmail
    blackmail, in law, exaction of money from another by threat of exposure of criminal action or of disreputable conduct. The term was originally used for the tribute levied until the 18th cent. upon the inhabitants of the Scottish border to provide immunity from raids by Scottish bands. Statutes often...
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15. Blackmail
    A criminal act of extortion, malicious threatening to do injury to another to compel him to do an act against his will. Usually involves the threat to release information, often true, about the person that will defame his reputation or bring criminal actions against him.
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16. Blackmail
    (n) Blackmail is method of influencing a person by resorting or threatening to do harm to a connected person or property so as to compel him to do or not to do certain acts which he would not have done without such compulsion. Eg. Kidnapping for ransom.
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17. blackmail
    Criminal offence of extorting money with menaces or threats of detrimental action, such as exposure of some misconduct on the part of the victim
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18. Blackmail
    In common usage, `blackmail` is a crime involving threats to reveal ISBN =-->--> It may be defined as coercion involving threats of physical harm, threat of criminal prosecution, or threats for the purposes of taking the person`s money or property.<ref name="merriam-webster"/><ref na...
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19. Blackmail
    (band) `Blackmail` is a German indie rock band from Koblenz, Germany which was started briefly in 1993. Blackmail are singer Mathias Reetz, brothers Kurt Ebelhäuser (lead guitars) and Carlos Ebelhäuser (bass) and drummer Mario Matthias. Their style of music usually varies, but mainly co...
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20. Blackmail
    (album) `Blackmail` (stylised as `blackmail`) is the debut album by the artist of the same name. The album consisted of tracks that the band was able to record in a high-tech recording studio that was readily lended to them by a German producer legend named Stuart Bruce who was ...
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