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racketeer

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) v. carry on illegal business activities involving crime

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All the gangster wanted in return was for Porter to open the city to Eastern racketeers. ▪ Gangsters and racketeers gained a hold on sections of the urban paramilitary organisations quite early. ▪ His complexion evokes the onetime ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1928 (noun and verb), from racket (n.1) + -eer . Related: Racketeering (1928).

Usage examples of racketeer.

But his manner pleased Sheff, for the racketeer had long hoped to work the renegade reporter into just this mood.

Robert Blakey had envisioned--DeMeo a participating member of a criminal enterprise and Castellano the overall head of that enterprise who had reaped illicit proceeds from a pattern of racketeering, whether or not he was personally involved in it.

It is the conception which underlies congressional legislation of recent years making certain crimes against the States, like theft, racketeering, kidnapping, crimes also against the National Government whenever the offender extends his activities beyond state boundary lines.

One-time racketeer - owner of the Club Janeiro - a man wanted for murder!

How could anyone, who had opportunity to come in close enough contact to Peters the racketeer to kill him, have equal opportunity to come in similar close contact with Ruth Bailey, the Social Registerite maiden lady?

To go after the real power, the Relatives at the top, you needed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization statutes.

The police had long been searching for Socks Mallory, one-time racketeer, who was now known to be a murderer.

Keenly, The Shadow divined that Socks had revealed to Spider that he intended to bump off the night-club racketeer.

By a tie-up with Socks Mallory, then an enterprising racketeer, Pringle peopled his catacombs with a squad of wanted men - chosen ruffians who stayed below ground gladly, and who served as the advance workers.

A federal grand jury has indicted seven men on an array of charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statutes, including ten counts of murder, two counts of solicitation to capital murder, seven counts of manslaughter, five counts of conspiracy to terrorism, seventeen counts of obstructing justice, twenty-two counts of weapons violations, and sixteen counts of endangering the public health.

Then word was passed along that Buckley was a racketeer in his own right.

Therefore, The Shadow had chosen to let Beak survive, until such time as the cagey racketeer might try to create crimes of his own.

When some cheap racketeering rabble-rousers come around trying to stir up trouble, they can't help getting sore, and then somebody may get hurt.

Lilyblack came to mind, back when he'd bravoed and racketeered for Pulg and Fafhrd had found god in Issek.

She later named my office and me in a lawsuit, accusing us of racketeering, among other things, for allegedly colluding with the insurance company to falsify records so no claim was paid to her.