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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 corporate executives and shareholders alike should be disturbed by the extortive circumstances in which Jackson appears to have gathered much of their money.
Insurers provide coverage for actual or pretended kidnapping, extortive threats or intentional, arbitrary capture or unlawful detention.
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.
But the college stood its ground, refusing to yield to these extortive demands.
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.

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