English-Spanish translations for blackmail

  • chantajearDebemos advertir contra los intentos de las grandes potencias de chantajear a las Naciones Unidas. We must warn against attempts by the big powers to blackmail the United Nations. En el pasado los Estados miembros de la UE se han dejado chantajear con demasiada frecuencia por China. Too often in the past EU Member States have allowed themselves to be blackmailed by China. 32 de sus empleados han sido detenidos por chantajear a los clientes a los que acusaban de robar electricidad. 32 of their employees have been arrested for blackmailing customers whom they accused of stealing electricity.
  • chantajeEste chantaje social va acompañado de un chantaje fiscal. This social blackmail is coupled with fiscal blackmail. No es ningún chantaje, ya que en Europa no practicamos el chantaje. It is not blackmail, because in Europe, we do not do blackmail. Esto no es ni más ni menos que chantaje. This is nothing short of blackmail.
  • extorsiónEsto se sitúa al borde de la extorsión. This is bordering on blackmail. Más del 90 % de la prostitución que se ejerce en Europa proviene del chantaje y de la extorsión. More than 90% of the prostitution in Europe arises from blackmail and extortion. Eso no es consenso, Señorías, es simplemente el fruto de una nueva extorsión política del Consejo a costa del Parlamento Europeo. That is not a compromise, ladies and gentlemen: it is the product of yet another act of political blackmail by the Council against the European Parliament.
  • extorsionar

Definition of blackmail

  • The extortion of money by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure
  • Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver
  • To extort money or favors from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc
  • To speak ill of someone; to defame someone

Examples

  • He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

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