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extort (something) from (someone or something)

To obtain something from someone or something through coercive means. I thought he was my friend, but here he is, trying to extort money from me through blackmail. When you have this much money, there's always some ne'er-do-well trying to extort it from you. I hear the CEO's former secretary knows some big secrets and is trying to extort serious cash from him. Basically, she wants him to buy her silence.
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extort something from someone or something

to steal something from someone by coercion; to force someone to give something by making threats. The crook was trying to extort a lot of money from the widow by selling her a worthless insurance policy. The authorities caught the accounting firm trying to extort a great deal of money from the bank.
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A couple from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday after being reported by the woman's mother of allegedly extorting more than e1/48,000 from her.
As per details, the information regarding impersonator/ fake NAB Officer surfaced that a private person using cell number 03369659963 has been continuously calling Government officers/Officials, Politicians, Bankers and private persons and extorting money from them.
"The security forces arrested three of the infiltrators, including leaders in Sinjar district, northwest of Mosul," a security source told NINA, added "The forces took them to Nineveh headquarters to investigate them and bring them to the Iraqi judiciary." The source added "a specialized gang in extorting civilians was arrested, consisting of 5 people in Tahrir area east of Mosul on the background of intelligence information by the people of the neighborhood." On the other hand, the security forces found the body of a civilian killed by gunshots in the head and chest in Maamoun neighborhood, west of Mosul./ End
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