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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Black Hand, Cosa Nostra, black market, bootlegging, gambling, gangdom, gangland, gray market, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate business, illicit business, loan-sharking, moonshining, narcotics traffic, organized crime, prostitution, protection racket, racket, shady dealings, the Mafia, the mob, the rackets, the syndicate, the underworld, traffic in women, usury, white slavery |
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Dictionary Results for mafia: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
Mafia
n 1: a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in
families; believed to have important relations to the
Sicilian Mafia [syn: Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra]
2: a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed
tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the
middle of the 19th century [syn: Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian
Mafia]
3: any tightly knit group of trusted associates [syn: mafia,
maffia]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
organized crime \organized crime\ n.
Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes, such as
bootlegging, conducting illegal gambling, loansharking,
extortion, etc.; -- a general term encompassing most forms of
criminal groups, but especially those that are consolidated
into "families" more or less recognizing each other's
different regions of operation; sometimes considered
synonymous with the mafia or the syndicate.
[PJC]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Maffia \Maf"fi*a\, Mafia \Ma"fi*a\, n. [It. maffia.]
1. A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political
organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is
used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by
illegal methods; called also the Sicilian Mafia.
[WordNet sense 2]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A group of loosely associated of criminal organizations in
the United States, some having ties to the Sicilian Mafia,
and organized in "families"; the term is applied to the
entire group of organizations, or to any one local group.
Also, loosely, organized groups of criminals anywhere, as
the Russian mafia. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: syndicate, mob, Cosa Nostra, La Cosa Nostra, organized
crime.
[WordNet 1.6 + PJC]
3. Any tightly knit group of trusted associates having strong
control or influence in some area; as, Kennedy and his
Irish Mafia. [informal] [WordNet sense 3]
[PJC]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Mafia \Maf"i*a\, Mafioso \Ma`fi*o"so\, n.
see maffia, maffioso.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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]
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