0 in great detail, or complete, correct, or true in every way:
1 to demand and get something, sometimes using force or threats:
to exact revenge on someone
The blackmailers exacted a total of $100,000 from their victims.
Heart surgery exacts tremendous skill and concentration.
3 to demand and obtain something, sometimes using threats or force:
to exact revenge
5 the correct amount of cash needed to pay for something, and not more or less than the amount needed:
7 to create problems, loss, danger, etc. for someone or something:
Alcohol and drug abusers exact a heavy toll on American businesses due to lower productivity, increased absenteeism, and accidents.
I looked the word up in the dictionary to check the exact meaning.
The exact number of casualties still hasn't been confirmed.
I forget the exact age difference between Mark and his brother - they're two or three years apart.
Mystery still surrounds the exact circumstances of Stalin's death.
Considerable rent arrears had built up, and unauthorized fees were being exacted.
Most borough charters reserved the fines exacted in borough courts for the corporation's use.
Section 3 insinuates that the ballet can only be comprehended if approached crabwise, in a ruminative, yet exacting, account sensitive to temporal and spatial contingency.
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