racketeer

☆ rack·et·eer (rak′ə tir′)

noun

a person who obtains money illegally, as by bootlegging, fraud, or, esp., extortion

Etymology: racket, + -eer

intransitive verb

to obtain money in any of these ways

rack′·et·eer′·ing noun

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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