The phrase "extract tribute" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to demand or collect payment or tribute from someone. It is often used in a historical or political context. Example: The conquering king sent his soldiers to extract tribute from the conquered villages, leaving the residents impoverished and resentful.
The Spanish mandate was to Christianize the indigenous population and to extract tribute for the crown, and violence was often used in order to gain these ends.
Emergent archaic states in pre-contact Hawai'i used a ritual control hierarchy implemented through a system of temples to manage production, extract tribute, and reinforce the legitimacy of the ruling elites.
That set off fears in Europe and the U.S. that Russia was trying to form a gas version of OPEC to extract tribute from EUropean consumers.
We need to accelerate the process of getting new spectrum in the hands of those who will use it wisely, and stop local zoning authorities from treating applications to improve the mobile infrastructure as invitations to extract tribute or worse.
The judicial system-police force collusion there was a Mafia-like system whose main purpose was to extract tribute from the poor community making up its jurisdiction, through bogus tickets and mandates for court appearances.
Such a large garrison allowed the Hospitallers to extract tribute from a wide area.
They were pirates, extracting tribute from the coasts of Ireland and one of their kings was Indech mac Dé Domnand (i.e. Indech, son of the goddess Domnu, who ruled over the deep seas).
In the original version of his book, The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy, he set out an analysis of the 2008 crisis and its aftermath using the Cretan legend of the minotaur as a metaphor: the "Global Minotaur" was US capitalism centered on Wall Street, extracting tribute from the world after 1971.
Some opposition leaders see Russia's territorial claims as a thinly disguised bid to extract oil tribute from a former vassal.
Furs, extracted as tribute from the indigenous peoples, were the main driving force behind this phenomenal eastward surge, and the routes used were mainly riverine by boat in summer and by sledge in winter.
Would you be willing to put an edited extract on our tributes page as well?
