CRIME SYNDICATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Synonyms:

crime syndicate; family; mob; syndicate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("crime syndicate" is a kind of...):

gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crime syndicate"):

Cosa Nostra; Maffia; Mafia (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia)

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