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▪ I. rackeˈteering, vbl. n. U.S.
[f. racketeer n. + -ing1.]
The business of racketeers; a system of organized crime directed chiefly to extorting money from business firms by intimidation, violence, or other illegal methods. Also attrib.
1928N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 15 Two gang murders within the last week prompted Judge Edwin O. Lewis..to order the August Grand Jury to delve to the bottom of ‘racketeering’ in Philadelphia. 1928Daily Express 14 Sept. 1/4 ‘Racketeering’ is the new word that has been coined in America to describe the big business of organised crime. 1929Sun (Baltimore) 10 Jan. 1/6 The defendants are charged with compelling..manufacturers to pay tribute to them by threatening to call strikes. The indictment was one of the first to be returned here in connection with a Federal investigation of racketeering. 1930Observer 19 Oct. 17 He had hoped..perhaps to introduce and organise ‘racketeering’ processes. Ibid., The only new detail is the paid protection of blackmail which now exists in many cities, described by the term ‘racketeering’. 1931Sun (Baltimore) 29 Jan. 1/6 Another effort is to be made to prohibit congressional nepotism now commonly recognized as ‘pay-roll racketeering’ on the part of members of both the House and Senate. 1941L. B. Namier Conflicts (1942) 163 Look at this Jew! What did he do in the war? Some racketeering? 1959Ann. Reg. 1958 187 Only on three major Bills was the President defeated..the attempt to regulate the affairs of trade unions to cut out racketeering [etc.]. 1978S. Brill Teamsters ii. 41 It was at the time when he was being charged with racketeering that Bufalino joined Hoffa's legal team.
▪ II. rackeˈteering, ppl. a.
[f. racketeer v. + -ing2.]
Characterized by or engaging in rackets.
1931Times 30 July 11/3 Sometimes employers trying to operate an ‘open shop’ hire strike breakers... In other cases ‘racketeering’ gangs take the initiative in intimidating employers with ‘open shops’. 1967Sunday Times 8 Oct. 24/8 Kim, at this period, ‘gave the impression of being a complaisant passenger in a racketeering upper-class world’. |