- present tense form of extort (3rd person singular).
extorts
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“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021
“Here you have someone trying to lawfully work and support their families, and then someone turns around and extorts them,” Erzen said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017
This means, for example, that a U.S. senator who extorts money is no more immune to being charged with this crime than an ordinary American.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2017
The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017
"A week ago I paid sixty thousand roubles for him, and now he extorts more money from me and behaves like this on the top of it all!"
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