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Exactor

Exactor \Ex*act"or\, n. [L.: cf. F. exacteur.] One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.
--Jer. Taylor.

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exactor

n. 1 A person who makes illegal or unreasonable demands; an extortioner. 2 A person who collects taxes.

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Exactor

Exactor may refer to:

  • Someone who practices extortion
  • Tax collector
  • Exactor (betting) - a type of bet in parimutuel horse betting
  • British Royal Artillery designation for the Spike NLOS guided missile

Usage examples of "exactor".

Antyr and Tarrian walked on in the self-satisfied glow of the small mischief they had wrought on the Gate Exactor, but the only signs of life they encountered were four dour-faced riders, and as the mournful atmosphere of the Village gradually weighed in upon them, the strange events of the night soon rose to dominate their thoughts again.

I think about it, the shepherd was arguing quite heatedly with the Exactor when I left.

It was a rare event for the Gate Exactor to be absent, and not an opportunity to be missed.

Aulus Tertius, humble Serdican exactor, had been exactly the sort of man they had in mind for the position of tribunicia potestate .

I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

Nevertheless these cavillers at faith and exactors of reason, how do they dispose of those things of which a reason cannot be given, and which yet exist, though in apparent contrariety to the nature of things?

You have sent down our old aristocratic landlords in no other character, and with no other title, but that of exactors under your authority.