📚 noun • entry_id 57969
protection money
Meanings (ES + gloss)
protección • renta
Money paid, especially at regular intervals, to criminals or to corrupt officials who threaten to cause harm to the payer or to his or her business if the money is not paid.
Those in the Lowland line who lay near him, and desired to enjoy their lives and property in quiet, were contented to pay him a small composition, in name of protection money, and…
[T]he police had raised the tariff for sporting houses, and would collect seventy-five and a hundred a month protection money.
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