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What does extortive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Involving, constituting or accomplished by extortion.
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Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money.
But when extortive middle men took much of their earnings, IUCN helped form a farmer cooperative to link the farmers directly with the wholesale market.
This will be supported by a special Economic Council of persons from within and outside Djibouti to prevent extortive relations with officials, which include academics and former diplomats with valuable experience.
While they're at it, they might also want to cover the resulting loss of proceeds from remittances and the extortive diaspora tax on Eritreans abroad.
Between 2002 and 2005, extortive kidnapping, a crime closely linked to the financing of armed organizations, decreased by 80 per cent, from almost 2,000 to fewer than 400 cases.
The extortive power of the rebels is easily demonstrated by blowing up the pipeline.

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