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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exaction \Ex*ac"tion\, n. [L. exactio: cf F. exaction.]
1. 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.
Take away your exactions from my people. --Ezek.
xlv. 9.
Daily new exactions are devised. --Shak.
Illegal exactions of sheriffs and officials.
--Bancroft.
2. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or
contribution, demanded or levied with severity or
injustice. --Daniel.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exaction
n : act of demanding or levying by by force or authority:
"exaction of tribute"; "exaction of various dues and
fees"
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