Que signifie blackmail en anglais?

Vous pouvez apprendre la prononciation, la grammaire et les synonymes de blackmail dans ce dictionnaire anglais faisant autorité.

blackmail Signification, définition

0 to demand money or favors in exchange for keeping a secret -- faire chanter
- He had been blackmailing her for years. Il l’avait fait chanter pendant des années.
1 -- chantage [ masculine ]
- arrested on charges of blackmail arrêté sous l’inculpation de chantage
2 to obtain money illegally from (a person), usually by threatening to make known something which the victim wants to keep secret -- faire chanter
- The politician was being blackmailed by an ex-girlfriend.
3 the act of blackmailing -- chantage
- He used blackmail to get money from the senator.

At the same time we anguish over the hostages, that odious form of violence and blackmail.
States that have been excluded from the visa waiver scheme are being blackmailed.
No government that succumbed to this despicable blackmail would be worthy of respect.
32 of their employees have been arrested for blackmailing customers whom they accused of stealing electricity.
I should like to make it clear that this is not blackmail.
A progressive export and liberalisation model for trade has been pushed on these countries, if necessary, by resorting to blackmail.