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Extortion vs Oppression - What's the difference?

extortion | oppression | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between extortion and oppression

is that extortion is the practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats while oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

extortion

English

Noun

(wikipedia extortion) (en noun)
  • The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.

    • Synonyms

    * blackmail

    oppression

    English

    Noun

  • The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
  • * (Sir Walter Raleigh)
    • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
  • The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
  • A feeling of being oppressed.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}

    Related terms

    * oppress

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