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extortionist

/ik-stawr-shuh-nist/US // ɪkˈstɔr ʃə nɪst //

敲诈者,敲诈勒索者,勒索者,敲詐者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who engages in extortion.

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Examples

  • From there, the extortionists infected as many as 1,500 networks that relied on the 60 customers for services.

  • Downplaying the ransomware threat seems foolish when it continues to grow at a rapid pace and when the extortionists are, shall we say, less than trustworthy.

  • There have been reports of a city, often suggested to be in Brazil, having its electricity cut off by extortionist hackers.

  • The lawyers accused Stephens of being an “extortionist” and handed him his own criminal background report, he said.

  • Driver an extortionist; but I knew the exact distance, to the tenth of a kilometre.

  • Nor do I think anything in her own life would give a blackmailer or an extortionist anything to go on.

  • More often, it is the by product and end result of lobbying, political hand bending and extortionist muscle.