racketeer Definition
☆ rack·et·eer (rak′ə tir′)
noun
a person who obtains money illegally, as by bootlegging, fraud, or, esp., extortion
intransitive verb
to obtain money in any of these ways
racketeer Related Forms
rack′·et·eer′·ing noun
racketeer Synonyms
racketeer Usage Examples
Converse of object
- lurk: For beneath the glittering surface of India's tinsel town lurk shady racketeers who use the film industry to make serious black money.
- influence: Up to workersthe racketeer influenced and from the officetechnical.
Preposition: for
capitalism: In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Adjective modifier
- shady: For beneath the glittering surface of India's tinsel town lurk shady racketeers who use the film industry to make serious black money.
- criminal: First they were double-crossed by criminal racketeers who, for a fortune, promised to get them into mainland Europe.
- religious: They remind us today of various cults or religious racketeers, of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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