Extortioner

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who practises extortion; specifically, one who obtains excessive prices, rent, interest, etc., by means of monopoly or some other advantage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who practices extortion; an extortionist.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. someone who extorts; an extortionist
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
  • Word Usage
    "That they should not long need their kindness, or be troublesome to them: For the extortioner is almost at an end already, and the spoiler ceases."
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