Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of exacting.
- noun Excessive or unjust demand; extortion.
- noun Something exacted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of demanding with authority and compelling to pay or yield; compulsory or authoritative demand; excessive or arbitrary requirement: as, the exaction of tribute or of obedience.
- noun That which is exacted; a requisition; especially, something compulsorily required without right, or in excess of what is due or proper.
- noun In law, a wrong done by an officer or one in pretended authority, by taking a reward or fee for that for which the law allows none. See
extortion . - noun The calling of a party to answer. See
exact , v., 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; ; hence, extortion.
- noun That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
demanding withauthority , andcompelling topay oryield ;compulsion to give orfurnish ; alevying byforce ; a driving tocompliance ; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence,extortion . - noun That which is
exacted ; a severetribute ; afee ,reward , orcontribution , demanded or levied withseverity orinjustice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun act of demanding or levying by force or authority
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Examples
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The only other things I would add are that in “Didden” Judge Sotomayor further confused the physical taking with an exaction, which is alarming because it appears, at least to my limited intellect, to sanction extortion by private parties with the same Constitutional rationale as the Supremes have used to sanction what I consider to be extortion by public entities.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Property Rights Cases are Not “Pro-Business” vs. “Anti-Business” Cases: 2009
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Smith was appointed along with Professor Muirhead to go and represent to the Provost that the exaction was a violation of the privileges of the University, and to demand repayment within eight days, under pain of legal proceedings.
Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895
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[91] Many commentators propose reading "exaction," instead of
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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The limitations on entry, the exaction of high entrance fees, and the social distinctions inherent in the master-journeyman-apprentice division alone dictate so.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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The limitations on entry, the exaction of high entrance fees, and the social distinctions inherent in the master-journeyman-apprentice division alone dictate so.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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Many states have case law distinguishing between the two in terms of the general term “forced exaction for government purposes.”
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I communed with myself: By his brow he is a thinker, but his intellect has been prostituted to a mercenary exaction of toll from misery.
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Moreover, that exaction will climb to almost 43% come January.
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This exaction represents the chihil yak or one-in-forty exaction claimed by Muslim rulers.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Rs. 284.6 toward a 2.5 percent exaction on all goods at Kabul35
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
brtom commented on the word exaction
For their spirits were broke and their manhood impair'd by foreign vices for exaction. (from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart)
December 31, 2007
bilby commented on the word exaction
"Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions."
- Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'.
September 19, 2009