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To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

Example: to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone

To make desirable or necessary.

To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

Example: to exact revenge on someone

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

Example: He paid the exact debt.

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

Example: In my doings I was exact.

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

(of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

Exactly

Example: She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!