Looking for the meaning or definition of the word extortive? Here's what it means.
Adjective
Involving, constituting or accomplished by extortion.
Examples
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.
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.
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.
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.
