something given or done as an expression of esteem
payment by one nation for protection by another
payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
"every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection"
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tribute
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. [ La Fontaine ]
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny. [ W. R. Alger ]
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. [ La Fontaine ]
Persecution is a tribute the great must ever pay for pre-eminence. [ Goldsmith ]
An hypocrite pays tribute to God, only that he may impose upon men. [ Proverb ]
Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. [ James Northcote ]
Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. [ Bacon ]
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