Usually means: Demanding unreasonably high prices, fees.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. extortionate: Merriam-Webster
  2. extortionate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extortionate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extortionate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extortionate: Vocabulary.com
  6. extortionate: Wordnik
  7. extortionate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extortionate: Wiktionary
  9. extortionate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extortionate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Extortionate, extortionate: Dictionary.com
  12. Extortionate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. extortionate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. extortionate: Rhymezone
  15. Extortionate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. extortionate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. extortionate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. extortionate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. extortionate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extortionate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. extortionate: Legal dictionary

(Note: See extortionately as well.)

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adjective:  Of, related to, or typifying extortion (“the practice of obtaining money or other property by the use of force or threats”).
adjective:  Greatly exceeding what is moderate or reasonable; exorbitant.

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