Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who commits crimes such as extortion, loansharking, bribery, and obstruction of justice in furtherance of illegal business activities.
- v. To carry on illegal business activities that involve crimes.
Wiktionary
- n. one who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business.
- n. one who instigates or has involvement with a racket.
- v. to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes.
- v. to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal organization.
WordNet 3.0
- v. carry on illegal business activities involving crime
- n. someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
Etymologies
- From racket + -eer (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Time, the great racketeer, is always stealing from us.”
“He was identified as a racketeer in hearings before a U.S.”
“Webster's definition of 'racketeer': "one who obtains money by an illegal enterprise usually involving intimidation”
Max Keiser: "Let Them Have Stained Carpets" - Obama's Marie Antoinette Moment
“Three Azerbaijani wrestlers win silvers at European Championship - UPDATE Azerbaijan Press Council announces seven newspapers "racketeer”
“Azerbaijan Press Council announces seven newspapers "racketeer”
“Measured moves by feared waterfront racketeer Tino Fiumara to reassert his control over the New Jersey docks came to a sudden and decisive end last week.”
The Huffington Post: Jerry Capeci: Cancer Takes Fierce Mobster: Tino Fiumara, 69
“In a secret FBI memo, Genovese soldier George Barone, a waterfront racketeer for decades, gave Fiumara the ultimate gangster compliment.”
The Huffington Post: Jerry Capeci: Cancer Takes Fierce Mobster: Tino Fiumara, 69
“As a young lawyer, in 1991, he visited the convicted racketeer in prison, at the request of a relative, he told the Times.”
The Huffington Post: Jerry Capeci: Cancer Takes Fierce Mobster: Tino Fiumara, 69
“Measured moves by feared waterfront racketeer Tino Fiumara to reassert his control over the New Jersey docks and move toward the top of the powerful Genovese crime family - as well as the feds 'efforts to derail him - came to a sudden and decisive end last week.”
The Huffington Post: Jerry Capeci: Cancer Takes Fierce Mobster: Tino Fiumara, 69
“In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
The Huffington Post: Eamon Murphy: Opposing the Wars at Occupy Wall Street
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘racketeer’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 213 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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Lying, cheating, and stealing
subterfuge, chicanery, skulduggery, pilfer, purloin, bamboozle, bilk, gyp, hoodwink, swindle, hoax, dupe and 28 more...
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POL - HU political issues
Hungary in the English-speaking press 2010-2013. Topical words and expressions.
collectivised pri..., controversial pac..., exclusion of unma..., forced labor, forced path of li..., former governor o..., frustrations born..., gay-hater, generous governme..., genuine economic ..., go public with Je..., golden generation and 538 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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picaresque
An assortment of ruffians, villains and scamps.
(who are remarkably endearing for all they are bad seeds...)ruffian, villain, scamp, imp, fiend, bastard, cad, brute, desperado, miscreant, knave, devil and 62 more...
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The Raff of Con
Words associated with grifting and other fraud. Watch your wallet!
scam, swindle, fraud, hoax, matchstick men, nigeria, 419, phishing, pretext, misdirection, pickpocket, cheat and 49 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 129
make a splash, splash, charming, bubbling, cruise, party, raise a racket, racketeering, racketeer
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