Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of exacting.
- n. Excessive or unjust demand; extortion.
- n. Something exacted.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. That which is exacted; a requisition; especially, something compulsorily required without right, or in excess of what is due or proper.
- n. 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.
- n. The calling of a party to answer. See exact, v., 4.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. act of demanding or levying by force or authority
Examples
“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:
“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.”
“[91] Many commentators propose reading "exaction," instead of”
“The limitations on entry, the exaction of high entrance fees, and the social distinctions inherent in the master-journeyman-apprentice division alone dictate so.”
“Many states have case law distinguishing between the two in terms of the general term “forced exaction for government purposes.””
“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.”
“Moreover, that exaction will climb to almost 43% come January.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hillary Clinton: Accidental Supply-Sider
“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
“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
“But they will also argue that the equity stakes, represented by stock purchase warrants that were packaged into the infusions of fresh capital that TARP and other programs supplied, are an unfair and untoward exaction on a bunch of grand fellows who have suffered enough for a night on the town.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘exaction’.
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SCIE - Be the first...
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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
Words gathered while reading works of Joseph Conrad.
gnomically, inarticulacy, emendation, palaver, aldermanic, calabash, opprobrious, immure, sea-reach, architecturally, mizzen, illusoriness and 60 more...
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Interesting words, mostly from The Economist and other newspapers.
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Tweets
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bilby "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'. Sep 19, 2009
brtom For their spirits were broke and their manhood impair'd by foreign vices for exaction. (from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart) Dec 31, 2007