yakuza

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
It is by getting these auditing firms to sign-off false company accounts, he said, that the yakuza were able to manipulate both the apparent earnings and stock prices of numerous small listed companies.

View all »
Definitions (4)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun A loose alliance of Japanese criminal organizations and illegal enterprises.
  2. noun A Japanese gangster.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (34)

  • Then all of a sudden they stopped submitting bids and we started to hear rumours about them What sort of rumours That they were really owned by the yakuza, the Japanese crims. —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
  • The Mafia and the yakuza: who needed them to call the shots? —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
  • You mentioned the yakuza -- some of them use a Russian piece, a Makarov. —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
  • The yakuza, it seems, don't like that much money being stolen from it Did the yakuza kill Rob Sweden and Terry Kornsey Casement again put on his glasses, took his time about setting them straight, as if they were a new pair. —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
  • Tajiri joined the yakuza, after arranging a proper invitation. —  Cleary, Melissa - Dog Mystery 04 - Skull and Dog Bones
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Words tagged yakuza

Stats

This word has been looked up 37 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Japanese, good-for-nothing, gambler, racketeer.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a year.

Recently looked up

mapquest · crosswise · zen · schtick · disparity

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

wub wub · merch · these grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor