0 to demand money or favors in exchange for keeping a secret -- utpresse
He had been blackmailing her for years. Han hadde utpresset henne i årevis.
1 -- utpressing [ masculine ]
arrested on charges of blackmail arrestert, siktet for utpressing
2 to obtain money illegally from (a person), usually by threatening to make known something which the victim wants to keep secret -- presse penger av
The politician was being blackmailed by an ex-girlfriend.
3 the act of blackmailing -- pengeutpressing
At what point is the probability of success so low as to justify the pejorative characterization "blackmail"?
They consolidated their hold over the labourers, maximised their profits and used times of labour shortage to blackmail the planters and to extract exaggerated advances.
With time, he also developed a predilection for political blackmail and extortion.
Neo-patrimonial bargaining at times involves military coercion, political bullying, and financial blackmail.
If collateral estoppel did apply, it would seem that the charge of "economic blackmail" would provide the basis for disapproving of the collateral estoppel doctrine.
The so-called "paradox of blackmail" has spawned a substantial literature of its own.
In the first place, factionalised parties made party leaders vulnerable to policy blackmail by powerful factions threatening to switch parties.
Are we willing to reduce the sentence of an offender if he accepts the operation, or is this a form of blackmail?
