protection money

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) * 1827, Sir Walter Scott, "The Highland Widow" ch. 2, in The Chronicles of the Canongate:
 * 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."

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 * Mandarin: 保護費
 * Czech:
 * Danish: beskyttelsespenge
 * Finnish:
 * French: argent de racket
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 * Indonesian: jaminan perlindungan
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 * Russian: пла́та за защи́ту, пла́та за покрови́тельство, пла́та за кры́шу
 * Slovak: výpalné
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: beskyddarpengar, skyddspengar
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