Word Meaning

exacts definition and meaning

a. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
a. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
a. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
a. To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
v. i. To practice exaction.

Crossword clues for exacts

- Accurate
- Accurate; demand
- Demand from former husband to behave
- Enforce (payment)
- Forcibly obtains
- Former husband's performance was precise
- Mouth of a volcano
- Pass entry try-out with Bill
- Precise
- Precise former performance
- Spot on
- Strict
- Take (revenge)
- Take (vengeance)
- Unerring
- Verbatim
- Word-for-word
- Word-for-word demand
- Enforces (payment)
- Enforces payment for former deeds
- Forcibly obtains
- Insists upon former deeds
- Necessitates
- Takes (revenge)