extortion
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The obtaining of money or advantage through coercion, threats, or abuse of authority.
The gang ran a protection racket amounting to systematic extortion of local traders.
Business noun
The practice of obtaining money or advantage through coercion or threats.
Regulators treated the demand for facilitation fees as thinly disguised extortion.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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