blackmail

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and blackmail

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while blackmail is (archaic) a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of england and south of scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.

As a verb blackmail is

to extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

In transitive terms the difference between rob and blackmail

is that rob is to deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud while blackmail is to extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

As a proper noun Rob

is a diminutive=Robert given name.

As nouns the difference between blackmail and sokaiya

is that blackmail is (archaic) a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of england and south of scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage while sokaiya is a form of racketeer in japan who blackmails companies by threatening to publicly humiliate their management.

As a verb blackmail

is to extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

As a noun blackmail

is a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.

As a verb blackmail

is to extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

As an adjective blackmailable is

who can be blackmailed.

As nouns the difference between blackmail and whitemail

is that blackmail is a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage while whitemail is a tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party.

As verbs the difference between blackmail and whitemail

is that blackmail is to extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud while whitemail is to persuade.