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ex·ac·tion [ɪgˈzækʃən] N form

1. exaction no pl (action of demanding):

exaction

[An]forderung f

2. exaction (act of extortion):

exaction

exaction

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To yield to their exactions would be to feed their insatiable appetites and would set a dangerous precedent for the future. en.wikipedia.org

However, at the end of the century, began a long period of epidemics and bad harvests, even more aggravated by heavy exactions of the tax. en.wikipedia.org

It was the most important of the exactions which lesser chiefs resented of their superiors. en.wikipedia.org

However, the people had to suffer from the exactions of the soldiers. en.wikipedia.org

Some herders dedicated themselves and their families to serve the monasteries, either from piety or from the desire to escape the arbitrary exactions of the nobility. en.wikipedia.org

Other groups could not manage the tensions and perpetrated exactions. en.wikipedia.org

These included seigneurial exactions, weeding, reaping and collection duties, all of which were ignored or denounced by yeomen and labourers during the uprisings. en.wikipedia.org

The currency was tied to the gold standard and a modern system of taxation replaced the arbitrary exactions and labour service of the past. en.wikipedia.org

Many of them were greedy and became wealthy and powerful through their exactions from the poor. en.wikipedia.org

Instead of regular taxation, armed groups began to steal directly from the populations and to commit exactions in villages and on the fields. en.wikipedia.org

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