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The answer BLACKMAIL has 37 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of blackmail in various dictionaries:
noun - extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
verb - exert pressure on someone through threats
verb - obtain through threats
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| It's forcing people to pay money by threatening to reveal their embarrassing secrets |
| A dark color & a postal term combine as this form of extortion |
| It's extortion by threat--like you'll send the photos to the newspaper if you don't receive $2 million |
| This crime is the act of attempting to obtain money by threatening to reveal damaging information |
| Originally, it was a tribute paid by English & Scottish farmers to freebooters for protection from harassment |
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| Demand money from (someone) in return for not revealing compromising information about them. |
| The action, treated as a criminal offence, of demanding money from someone in return for not revealing compromising information which one has about them. |
| the action, treated as a criminal offence, of demanding money from someone in return for not revealing compromising information which one has about them. |
| demand money from (someone) in return for not revealing compromising information about them. |
| Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information. |
| Something of value extorted in this manner. |
| Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage. |
| extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information |
| obtain through threats |
| exert pressure on someone through threats |
| Blackmail description |
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| Blackmail is an act, often criminal, involving unjustified threats to make a gainmost commonly money or propertyor cause loss to another unless a demand is met. It is coercion involving threats to reveal substantially true or false information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates, or threats of physical harm or criminal prosecution.Blackmail is the name of a statutory offense in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, and has been used as a convenient way of referring to other offenses, but was not a term of art in English law before 1968. It originally meant payments rendered by settlers in the counties of England bordering Scotland to chieftains and the like in the Scottish Lowlands, in exchange for protection from Scottish thieves and marauders into England.Blackmail may also be considered a form of extortion. Although the two are generally synonymous, extortion is the taking of personal property by threat of future harm. Blackmail is the use of th |