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Definition: Extortionist |
ExtortionistNoun1. A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ExtortionistSynonyms: blackmailer (n), extortioner (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "extortionist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shantazhist (blackmailer, extortioner). (various references) | |
Arabic | منتزع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кожодер (flayer, flay-flint), грабител (depredator, grabber, harpy, plunderer, reaver, reiver, robber, spoiler, spoliator, usurper), пиявица (bloodsucker, leech), изнудвач (blackmailer, exactor, racketeer, shark, squeezer). (various references) | |
Czech | vydìraè (blackmailer, extortioner, racketeer). (various references) | |
French | extorqueur (extortioner), exacteur (exactor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערפד (bloodsucker, leech, vampire), סחטן (blackmailer, extortioner, racketeer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsaroló (extortionate, racketeer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 総会屋 (extortionist that threatens to disrupt stock-holder meetings). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうかいや (extortionist that threatens to disrupt stock-holder meetings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extortionistay.(various references) | |
Russian | вымогатель (exactor, extortioner, flay-flint). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ucenjivač (blackmailer, extortioner, racketeer), iznuđivač (extortioner). (various references) | |
Spanish | extorsionador (blackmailer, extortioner). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorba (autocratic, autocratical, bully, despot, extortioner, high handed, imperious, overbearing, persecutor, procrustean, rapacious, ravisher, rowdy, ruffian), kazıkçı (extortioner, swindler, trickster). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tống tiền (extortioner), người bóp nặn (extortioner), kẻ tham nhũng (extortioner). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "extortionist": extortionists. (additional references) | |
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"Extortionist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extortioners. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-n-o-o-r-s-t-t-t-x" | |
-2 letters: extortions. | |
-3 letters: extortion, sortition. | |
-4 letters: introits, nitrites, nittiest, rootiest, snootier, snottier, tenorist, tortoise, tortonis, tritones. | |
-5 letters: enroots, erosion, extorts, inosite, intorts, introit, ironies, ironist, isotone, nitrite, nitroso, nittier, noisier, norites, oestrin, orients, retints, risotto, sootier, stentor, stinter, stonier, stretti, stretto, testoon, tiniest, tinters, titters, titties, toniest, tooters, tootsie, torsion, tortoni, totters, toxines, tritest, tritone. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-n-o-o-r-s-t-t-t-x" | |
+1 letter: extortionists. | |
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