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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person who commits crimes such as extortion, loansharking, bribery, and obstruction of justice in furtherance of illegal business activities.
  2. v. To carry on illegal business activities that involve crimes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. one who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business.
  2. n. one who instigates or has involvement with a racket.
  3. v. to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes.
  4. v. to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal organization.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. carry on illegal business activities involving crime
  2. n. someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)

Etymologies

  1. From racket +‎ -eer (Wiktionary)

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