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exact (something) from (one)

To obtain something from someone through authority, force, or some other means of coercion. I doubt you'll be able to exact the entire amount from her because she doesn't make enough money to pay you back right now.
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to be (more) exact

To be more accurate; to provide better or more correct details. You'll need to pay nearly $500 for various entry visas to get into the country—$485, to be exact. It seems like the political party is finally starting to gain some amount of clout in parliament, or, to be more exact, they have become less marginalized and disliked.
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exact something from someone

to demand something from someone; to take something from someone. The bill collector sought to exact payment from them for a debt that had been paid off long ago. You cannot exact a single cent from me.
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Intuit said it will consolidate Exactor's technology into QuickBooks to enable retail customers to track and file sales tax returns on-time.
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La calcinante oracion pertenece al general boliviano German Busch (1904-1939), enemigo acerrimo de oligarcas, promotor de beneficios para los indigenas de su pais, responsable de los primeros intentos de nacionalizacion de las mineras y ferreo exactor de impuestos para petroleras inglesas y norteamericanas.
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Alonso y la telenovela mexicana
Para su diario y la empresa de yates, Azcarraga Milmo contrato al exembajador de Estados Unidos en Mexico, John Gavin, un exactor que se consideraba un buen publirrelacionista.
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Iba delante el Centurion, a caballo, aquel a quien Tacito llamaba con terrible brevedad "exactor mortis'.
Sin compasion
En 1980, cuando el exactor hollywoodense y ranchero Ronald Reagan gano la Presidencia de Estados Unidos, se hizo rodear y aconsejar de todo tipo de gente.
Fox se azedillo
Staggeringly prolific, Yemi Bolatiwa, 27, is the frontwoman for genrestraddling outfit Pareidolia, a frequent collaborator with funk band The Exactors, and she's part of local artistic enterprise the M20 Collective.
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On this account, the public service center was put forward as an institutional device that aims to instigate institutional innovation without affecting the substantial power of its exactors.
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Why has this society covered the murderers only because the exactors spoke Greek and their victims spoke Turkish?
Wanted: Greek actor with a conscience
However, the Septuagint derived the meaning of the two words using different vowels, with the resulting translation: O my people, exactors strip you clean, And your creditors lord it over yon.
Champion and defender: the other side of the word
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