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''racketeering'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260320113731-00-⌔
racketeering - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
racketeering (usually uncountable, plural racketeerings)
- The criminal action of being involved in a racket; especially, directing it.
- ✤ Synonym: racketry (uncommon)
Verb
racketeering
- present participle and gerund of racketeer
Etymology
Coined by the Employers’ Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.1
Printed 2026-06-28.
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Link to original Footnotes
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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