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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exaction \Ex*ac"tion\, noun [L. exactio: cf. F. exaction.]
1. 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; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.
Take away your exactions from my people. --Ezek. xlv. 9.
Daily new exactions are devised. --Shak.
Illegal exactions of sheriffs and officials. --Bancroft.
2. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice. --Daniel.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exaction
noun: act of demanding or levying by force or authority; "exaction of tribute"; "exaction of various dues and fees"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "exaction": admission, admission fee, anchorage, blackmail, bother, brokerage, burdening, call, call for, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, charging, claim, contribution, cover charge, demand, demand for, dockage, draft, drain, dues, duty, entrance fee, exactment, extortion, extortionate demand, fare, fee, freighting, heavy demand, hire, imposing an onus, imposition, impost, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, indent, infliction, insistent demand, laying on, levy, license fee, loading, loading down, nonnegotiable demand, notice, obtrusiveness, order, pilotage, portage, presumptuousness, rending, requirement, requisition, ripping, rush, rush order, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shot, storage, tasking, tax, taxing, tearing, toll, towage, tribute, trouble, ultimatum, unwarranted demand, warning, weighting, wharfage, wrench, wrenching, wrest, wresting, wring, wringing
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