'organized crime' definitions:
Definition of 'organized crime'
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Definition of 'organized crime'
From: GCIDE
- Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.]
- 1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A more or less organized association of criminals controlling some aspects of criminal activity, in a specific area or country-wide; -- used loosely as a synonym for organized crime or the mafia. [PJC]
- 4. (Journalism) a commercial organization that purchases various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resells them to newspapers or other periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'organized crime'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Black Hand,
- black market,
- bootlegging,
- Cosa Nostra,
- gambling,
- gangdom,
- gangland,
- gray market,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- loan-sharking,
- Mafia,
- moonshining,
- narcotics traffic,
- prostitution,
- protection racket,
- racket,
- shady dealings,
- the Mafia,
- the mob,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- the underworld,
- traffic in women,
- usury,
- white slavery