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Extortion Practice Obtaining Money Force Threats Bureaucracy Lived

Word extortion
Definition the practice of obtaining something ,especially money ,through force or threats.
Example The bureaucracy lived by what we today would call systematized corruption, which sometimes became extortion."

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