Extortionist - English meaning

noun

A person who demands money or another benefit from someone in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them.

Usage examples:

The blackmailer had threatened to tell his wife about his affair

noun

An insect or other animal that sucks blood, especially a leech or a mosquito.

Usage examples:

The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other anim…

noun

An animal or insect that sucks blood from other animals

Usage examples:

Leeches and mosquitoes are bloodsuckers.

noun

Someone who uses other people or things for his or her own profit or advantage

noun

A person who obtains something by force or threats

verb

Make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally or in a black market.

Usage examples:

They claim he has illegally profiteered from his businesses in a number of ways

noun

A person who profiteers.

Usage examples:

A war profiteer

noun

A person who engages in dishonest and fraudulent business dealings.

Usage examples:

She would recount how it was possible to buy anything - from meat, chocolate, cigarettes and the ob…

noun

A person who makes money through dishonest or illegal activities

noun

Someone who makes money from organized illegal activities

Usage examples:

He achieved worldwide notoriety as a racketeer during the prohibition era in chicago.

noun

A person who gives tips at a race meeting.

Usage examples:

Anyway, this place has the hardest working tout or urger or whatever they're called in australia.