Look up: blackmail

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   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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   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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   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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   Blackmail
   Making an unwarranted demand with menaces. (Crimes against property)
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   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, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott. 2. Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money f ...
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   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 harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [ U. S.]
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   blackmail
   noun extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
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   blackmail
   blackjack verb exert pressure on someone through threats
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   blackmail
   verb obtain through threats
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    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 extort money from by exciting fears of injury other t...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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