extortion

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɔːʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɔɹʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən

Noun

extortion (plural extortions)

1. 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

• cryptoviral extortion
• sextortion

Related terms

• extortionary, extortionate, extortive

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
• 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
• Italian: estorsione (it) f
• Japanese: 強要 (ja) (きょうよう, kyōyō), ゆすり (ja) (yusuri), たかり (takari)
• Kazakh: бопсалаушылық (bopsalauşylyq)
• Korean: 강요(強要) (ko) (gang'yo)
• Latin: repetundae f pl
• Macedonian: изнуда f (iznuda), уцена f (ucena)
• Middle English: extorcion
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utpressing

• Persian: اخاذی (fa) (axxâzi)
• Polish: wymuszenie n, zdzierstwo n
• Portuguese: extorsão (pt) f
• Romanian: stoarcere (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”)

Further reading

• extortion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia