form of blackmail
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandblackmail
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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blackmail
noun[U]
uk/ˈblæk.meɪl/us/ˈblæk.meɪl/
the act of getting money from people or forcing them to do something by threatening to tell a secret of theirs or to ...
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(Definition offormandblackmailfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Are we willing to reduce the sentence of an offender if he accepts the operation, or is this aformofblackmail?
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When one thinks of security one thinks of someone giving information or succumbing to someformofblackmailby another nation.
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In other words, this is aformofblackmailin respect of something without which this man cannot extend his business.
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It is anotherformofblackmail, neither more nor less.
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The threat of bankruptcy is a very strongformofblackmail, and it is very easy for a man to be in debt for £50.
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Carers are often subject to aformofblackmailbecause they seem to believe that they are letting somebody down by wanting a break.
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I do not say that as a threat, still less someformofblackmail.
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That is aformofblackmailwhich will have an immediate salutary effect.
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Although that is not actually aformofblackmail, it is a difficult decision for local authorities to make.
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Thatformofblackmailis something that no one in the world would want to see develop.
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It is often just aformofblackmailof the man who in ordinary circumstances has to pay or lose the order.
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That is an attractive notion so far as it goes, but it is aformofblackmail.
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I class this as aformofblackmailsupervision.
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Negotiations should be entirely between our country and the country concerned with independence, but we should not in any way fear anyformofblackmail.
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Their demands, in theformofblackmailon society, become greater and greater.
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This temporary expedient year after year is aformofblackmail.
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It is because this class of prosecution is one that lends itself very particularly to aformofblackmail.
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That was a conventionalformofblackmailto which we were subjected.
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It can only be said that it is aformofblackmail.
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The cuts are managed by using aformofblackmail, associated with reductions in expenditure by way of grant.
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