0 present participle of extort
1 to get something by force or threats, or with difficulty:
However, news reports indicate that police forces were more interested in mounting illegal checkpoints and extorting bribes from civilians than in maintaining law and order.
In addition to armed robbery, these gangs ran protection rackets, extorting money from business people and traders as well as attacking their customers.
Those officers were charged with having robbed those people, extorting money from them in consideration for not reporting them.
This trade has been getting away with extorting huge sums of money from unsuspecting motorists for a long time.
It was simply putting on a clamp and extorting money from innocent car owners.
He may have been a bad debtor, but this is evidence of the length to which the practice is being taken in extorting payment.
It is a cartel, explicit or implicit, which has been extorting money from travellers for donkeys' years just to keep national airlines in existence.
He was charged with extorting money with menaces.
