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racketeering

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Etymology

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Coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.[1]

Noun

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racketeering (usually uncountable, plural racketeerings)

  1. The criminal action of being involved in a racket; especially, directing it.
    Synonym: racketry (uncommon)

Translations

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Verb

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racketeering

  1. present participle and gerund of racketeer

References

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  1. ^ David Witwer, "'The Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in America': The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union During the 1930s," in Corrupt Histories, Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan, eds., University of Rochester Press, 2004. →ISBN
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