noun

• Dishonest and fraudulent business dealings.

  ‘racketeering ensnared the economy’

  More example sentences

  • ‘a local racketeering boss’
  • ‘Today he was named in a federal racketeering lawsuit.’
  • ‘He was acquitted of eight charges involving cocaine racketeering.’
  • ‘The paramilitary organisations on both sides have long since been political fronts for gangsterism and racketeering.’
  • ‘A federal jury convicted him on ten counts of bribery, corruption and racketeering.’
  • ‘The Secretary of State revoked his licence because of his involvement in terrorism, racketeering and drug dealing.’
  • ‘He had been convicted four times for labor racketeering.’
  • ‘He was held on racketeering charges but released last week.’
  • ‘It's part of a national chain of illegal racketeering outlets.’
  • ‘The privatization of state-owned companies has become a matter of commonplace racketeering.’
  • ‘Plenty can be written about the racketeering that is going on inside global organisations.’