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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
racketeering
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kelly is awaiting trial on fraud and racketeering charges.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He says the public does not always appreciate the social cost of large scale fraud and racketeering.
▪ My guess is that it's a front for polite racketeering.
▪ New capital crimes would include the use of firearms; hostage-taking; torture; sale of drugs to minors and racketeering.
▪ Observers noted that a large number of those involved in racketeering and smuggling were among the estimated 500,000 troops demobilized since 1987.
▪ One of the government's liaisons with racketeering is partially documented.
▪ The charges included racketeering, conspiracy, bank fraud, securities fraud, misapplication of funds and interstate transportation of stolen property.
▪ The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption.
Wiktionary
racketeering

n. The criminal action of being involved in a racket. vb. (present participle of racketeer English)

WordNet
racketeering

n. engaging in a racket

Usage examples of "racketeering".

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.

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.

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.