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extortionately

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ex·tor·tion·ate  (k-stôrsh-nt)
adj.
1. Characterized by extortion.
2. Exorbitant; immoderate: extortionate interest rates.

ex·tortion·ate·ly adv.
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Adv.1.extortionatelyextortionately - to an exorbitant degree; "prices are exorbitantly high in the capital"


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Baskes has his sights squarely on the conventional historiographical wisdom that the repartimiento not only facilitated the cochineal industry, but more generally forced reluctant indigenous peasants into colonial market relations which they preferred to avoid, for the sake of extortionately high profits garnered by official and mercantile middlemen.
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