• n.
    ⦿payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
    lexical concept
  • every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:protection
  2. enl:tribute
wn:interlingual indexili:i39531

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelprotectiontribute