Definitions
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- noun The criminal action of being involved in a
racket . - verb Present participle of
racketeer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun engaging in a racket
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Examples
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That quote used the term racketeering to describe his activities.
BlueOregon 2009
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THE House of Representatives 'Ad Hoc Committee reviewing activities in the Oil and Gas sectors from 1999 - 2008 has indicted former President Olusegun Obasanjo, while recommending stiff penalties against ministry officials responsible for what it described as racketeering in oil blocks' awards during the period under review.
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Of course, exactly the same Chinese prostitution racketeering is doubtless happening in America, only on a bigger scale.
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Of course, exactly the same Chinese prostitution racketeering is doubtless happening in America, only on a bigger scale.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Chinese: The Exemplary Immigrants 2008
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Of course, exactly the same Chinese prostitution racketeering is doubtless happening in America, only on a bigger scale.
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Like labor racketeering, this form of digital racketeering is attempting to dominate, manipulate, and control your access to information and the access of others to you.
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Like labor racketeering, this form of digital racketeering is attempting to dominate, manipulate, and control your access to information and the access of others to you.
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And furthermore, every insurance company in the country does the same thing, which in my language we call racketeering and price-fixing.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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The decision, which reverses defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. 's opening promise to jurors, means an early conclusion to a trial that has revealed years of high-level wheeling and dealing that the prosecution labels racketeering and the defense calls Illinois politics as usual -- unsavory, perhaps, but hardly criminal.
Lawyers say Blagojevich won't testify at corruption trial 2010
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District Court, accuses the three of committing murder in aid of racketeering, which is punishable by life in prison or the federal death penalty.
10 alleged SE gang members are indicted for additional crimes 2010
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