protection money en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
[T]he FSB, interior ministry and police collect protection money from businesses.
2010 December 1, Luke Harding, “WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 04 Jun 2014:[T]he police had raised the tariff for sporting houses, and would collect seventy-five and a hundred a month protection money.
a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, chapter 13, in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:[T]he Mungiki . . . hit the headlines in April with a string of beheadings as they tussled for control of lucrative bus routes by executing drivers and conductors who refused to pay protection money.
2007 November 6, Rob Crilly, “Kenya Accused of Mass Killings”, in Time, retrieved 04 Jun 2014:Four members of an Asian gang were arrested yesterday and charged with extortion and conspiracy for demanding protection money from Chinese restaurants in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
1993 June 15, “Four Men Arrested In Protection Scheme”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jun 2014: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 comforted themselves with the old proverb that it was better to "fleech the deil than fight him."
1827, Sir Walter Scott, "The Highland Widow" ch. 2, in The Chronicles of the Canongate
Relateds
protection racket · extortion · blackmail
Translations (23)
da beskyttelsespenge (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · he דְּמֵי חָסוּת (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · vi bảo kê (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · es protección (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · sv skyddspengar (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · fi suojeluraha (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · it pizzo (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · cmn 保護費 /保护费 (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · ga cosaint (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · fr argent de racket (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · es renta (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · sk výpalné (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · ko 보호금 (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · uk кришування бізнесу (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · ru пла́та за покрови́тельство (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · id jaminan perlindungan (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · ru пла́та за кры́шу (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · ro taxă de protecție (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · sv beskyddarpengar (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · de Schutzgeld (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · ca protecció (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · ru пла́та за защи́ту (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm) · cs výpalné (money regular interval, extorted by criminals threatening to cause harm)