"protection" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "So I'm already making yearly protection payments to the Mob, and I don't see why I should stand for being shaken down for anything extra."
- His activities as a collector of protection payments had caught the attention of authorities earlier, and he had to leave New York City for a while.
- The protection payments started off huge and got bigger.
- Extorting protection payments continued to be its primary function.
- Didn't make his protection payments, huh?
- In recent years the family has operated freely in several western Mexico states; such activities are only possible as the result of protection payments to the authorities.
- The protection payment is determined by a fisherman's rate of catch, the size of the vessel and the number of engines.
- The Trat police chief later stated that the attack was prompted by the casino failing to make a protection payment to the rebel group.
- The Stones also gained control of vice in the South Side, demanding protection payments from prostitution operations and drug dealers.
- The protection payments were described by crime family members as a "street tax," the affidavit said.
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