extortion

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɔːʃən/
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• General-American: /ɪkˈstɔɹʃən/
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• General-American: /ɛk-/
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən
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From Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō. By surface analysis, extort + -ion.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِبْتِزَاز (ibtizāz) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Armenian: շորթում (šortʻum) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Belarusian: вымага́нне (vymahánnje) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Belarusian: вымага́ньне (vymahánʹnje) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Belarusian: здзíрства (zdzírstva) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Belarusian: вымага́льніцтва (vymahálʹnictva) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Bulgarian: изну́дване (iznúdvane) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Catalan: extorsió — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Chinese Mandarin: 勒索 (lèsuǒ) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Chinese Mandarin: 敲詐 /敲诈 (qiāozhà) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Czech: vydírání — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Danish: afpresning — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Dutch: afpersing — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Esperanto: eldevigo — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Esperanto: malhonestaĵo — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Estonian: väljapressimine — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Finnish: kiristys — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Finnish: kiskonta — the practice of extorting money or other property
• French: extorsion — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Galician: extorsión — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Georgian: გამოძალვა (gamoʒalva) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• German: Erpressung — the practice of extorting money or other property
• German: Wucher — the practice of extorting money or other property
• German: Extorsion — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Greek: χρηματολογία (chrimatología) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Greek: εκβιασμός (ekviasmós) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Hungarian: zsarolás — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Hungarian: kicsikarás — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Hungarian: extorzió — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Indonesian: pemerasan — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Italian: estorsione — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Japanese: 強要 (kyōyō) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Japanese: ゆすり (yusuri) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Japanese: たかり (takari) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Kazakh: бопсалаушылық (bopsalauşylyq) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Korean: 강요 (gang'yo) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Latin: repetundae — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Macedonian: изнуда (iznuda) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Macedonian: уцена (ucena) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Malay: peras ugut — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Middle English: extorcion — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Norwegian Bokmål: utpressing — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Iranian Persian: اَخاذی (axâzi) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Iranian Persian: اَخَّاذی (axxâzi) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Polish: wymuszenie — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Polish: zdzierstwo — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Portuguese: extorsão — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Romanian: extorcare — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Russian: вымога́тельство (vymogátelʹstvo) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Serbo-Croatian: и̏знуда — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏цена — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏цјена — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Serbo-Croatian: ȉznuda — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕcena — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕcjena — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Slovak: vydieranie — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Slovene: izsiljevanje — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Spanish: extorsión — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Swedish: utpressning — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Tagalog: pangingikil — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Tagalog: kikil — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Tajik: тамаъҷӯӣ (tama'jüyi) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Turkish: şantaj — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Turkish: haraç — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Ukrainian: зди́рство (zdýrstvo) — the practice of extorting money or other property
• Ukrainian: вимага́ння (vymahánnja) — the practice of extorting money or other property