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Перевод: extortion

[существительное]
вымогательство; назначение грабительских цен

Тезаурус:

1. The bank lent money to a speculator charged with extortion.
2. Members of the Constabulary practised robbery, extortion and kidnapping.
3. The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown, but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee.
4. Resolution 678 - Intimidation, Bribery and Extortion
5. The Teflon Don, head of the Gambino crime family, was jailed for life last June, for murder, gambling, loan-sharking extortion and tax fraud.
6. Niyogi had made the police's work of extortion and intimidation more arduous.
7. Police believe he was set up by Jim Craig, who ran the UDA's multi-million pound a year extortion rackets.
8. Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, in a letter to UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar on January 24, noted that the United States had manoeuvred passage of Resolution 678 through a combination of "pressure, intimidation, extortion and bribery".
9. In a report last summer, Mr Wohl said the market was dominated by an atmosphere of violence and extortion that significantly increased the retail price of fish in the city.
10. Occasionally a chief headman was discovered to be involved in organized extortion, requiring services and gifts from the headmen and people under his jurisdiction beyond those which were customarily expected.
11. Seale, 45, who was arrested after a massive manhunt, yesterday admitted extortion, conspiracy, and possessing weapons.
12. Mrs Seale, who turned state evidence, admitted extortion.
13. He also took over some national functions handled now by the Metropolitan Police - Interpol, the paedophile index, public sector corruption, counterfeit currency, data on product contamination, kidnap and extortion and the research unit of the stolen vehicle squad.