blackmail threat

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• blackmail — black·mail / blak ˌmāl/ n [originally, payment extorted from farmers in Scotland and northern England, from black + dialectal mail payment, rent]: extortion or coercion by often written threats esp. of public exposure, physical harm, or criminal… …   Law dictionary

• Blackmail — is the crime of threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand made upon the victim is met. This information is usually of an embarrassing and/or socially damaging …   Wikipedia

• threat — [n] warning; danger blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, hazard, impendence, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall*; concept 278 …   New thesaurus

• threat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Declaration of intention to harm Nouns 1. threat, menace, intimidation, commination, minacity, terrorism; empty threat, fulmination, sword or saber rattling; defiance; yellow menace or peril; blackmail,… …   English dictionary for students

• blackmail — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ emotional, moral ▪ economic, nuclear, political BLACKMAIL + NOUN ▪ attempt, threat …   Collocations dictionary

• blackmail — Unlawful demand of money or property under threat to do bodily harm, to injure property, to accuse of crime, or to expose disgraceful defects. This crime is commonly included under extortion or criminal coercion statutes. See Model Penal Code No …   Black's law dictionary

• blackmail — Unlawful demand of money or property under threat to do bodily harm, to injure property, to accuse of crime, or to expose disgraceful defects. This crime is commonly included under extortion or criminal coercion statutes. See Model Penal Code No …   Black's law dictionary

• blackmail — A criminal offense as a form of extortion; usually, extortion by threat of exposure of a criminal offense by, or of some conduct or act of, the victim which, if made public, will operate to his disadvantage; occasionally applied to extortion by… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• blackmail — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. extortion, hush money, protection, shakedown (sl.). See stealing, payment, threat. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. hush money, protection*, extortion, shakedown*; see bribe . v. Syn. extort, exact, coerce,… …   English dictionary for students

• blackmail — n. extortion, use of intimidation or force in order to obtain something (money, information, etc.) v. extort money, obtain (money, information, etc.) through threat or intimidation …   English contemporary dictionary

• Nuclear blackmail — is a form of nuclear strategy in which an aggressor uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some action or make some concessions. It is a type of extortion, related to brinkmanship. Contents 1 Effectiveness 2… …   Wikipedia