1) Bleed 2) Booty 3) Chantage 4) Extort 5) Extortion 6) Shakedown
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1) Case for Perry Mason 2) Coerce illegally 3) Extortion 4) Extortion by threats 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Exclusively Saxon word 7) Film murder motive 8) Film murder motive, sometimes 9) German indie rock group 10) Hush money 11) Motive for murder 12) Obtain through threats 13) To defame someone
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Blackmail is an act, often a crime, involving unjustified threats to make a gain or cause loss to another unless a demand is met. 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. It is the name of a statutory offence in the Unite....
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• (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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(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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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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(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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Making an unwarranted demand with menaces. (Crimes against property)
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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.
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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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An unjustified demand, threatening to reveal embarrassing, disgraceful, or damaging facts (or rumors) about a person to the public, family, spouse, or associates unless paid off to not carry out the threat. Blackmail is charged under the crime of extortion.
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[
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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noun extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
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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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any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations. · the extortion of such payment: He confessed rather than suffer the dishonor of blackmail. · a tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage.
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