| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A sum of money levied as punishment for an offense: amercement, fine2, penalty. See REWARD. | | VERB: | 1. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal : chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang : diddle1, do, gyp, stick, sting. See HONEST. 2. To impose a fine on: amerce, fine2, penalize. See REWARD.
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