extortionate
pronunciation
How to pronounce extortionate in British English:
UK [ɪkˈstɔ:ʃənət]
How to pronounce extortionate in American English:
US [ɪkˈstɔrʃənət]
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- Adjective:
- greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
Word Origin
- extortionate (adj.)
- 1711, from extortion + -ate. Extortious is from c. 1600.
Example
- 1. Extortionate call charges put customers off .
- 2. The price exacted by the hijackers for redeeming the hostages was extortionate .
- 3. Those are extortionate interest rates to be charging .
- 4. Scholars were charged extortionate permissions fees , and often bluntly refused the right to quote from his grandfather 's work at all .
- 5. The trigger was the us " subprime " mortgage crisis where lenders targeted poor people with loans at extortionate rates of .