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Example sentences for: shakedown

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shakedown a search of a prisoner or his cell.
'Whether you use the language of the street and call it a shakedown or whether you just call it our system, however you put it, it's a messy system.
Newly exposed Oval Office Nixon no-nos include: early plans to destroy the tapes, thanking a supporter for supplying funds Nixon knew were being used as hush money for the Watergate burglars, a plot to "shakedown" the milk lobby for more campaign contributions, and various schemes to interfere with the Democratic primaries by creating spurious grassroots campaigns for Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.
Compare the gunman's direct approach with the "voluntary standards" shakedown practiced by the federal government.