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nonextortion

nonextortion noun: lack of extortion.

Noun

nonextortion (uncountable)

  1. Lack of extortion.
    • Posner's second argument against enforcing surrogacy contracts invokes a principle of nonextortion, which might be entailed by basic liberty (depending on what nonextortion is taken to mean).1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement, page 398

Origin of nonextortion

From non- + extortion.

Questions about nonextortion

What does nonextortion mean?
Nonextortion means lack of extortion.
What part of speech is nonextortion?
Nonextortion is a noun.

Words near nonextortion in the dictionary

  1. nonexternal
  2. nonexternalities
  3. nonexternality
  4. nonextinct
  5. nonextinction
  6. nonextortion
  7. nonextortive
  8. nonextractable
  9. nonextracted
  10. nonextraction
  11. nonextractive

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