Bribery vs Extort - What's the difference?
bribery | extort |
the making of illegal payment, or bribes, to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions
(legal) the activity of giving, offering or accepting bribes
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
(legal) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
(transitive, and, intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.