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Definitions: Racketeer |
RacketeerNoun1. Some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion). Verb1. Carry on illegal business activities involving crime. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Racketeer |
| English words defined with "racketeer": bagman ♦ Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Racketeer Rabbit (1946) Rhythm Racketeer (1937) Racketeer Rhythm (1937) Madame Racketeer (1932) The Racketeer (1929) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Racketeer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Racketeer" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "racketeer": drug racketeer ♦ racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
racketeer | 20 |
act corrupt influenced organization racketeer | 9 |
corrupt influenced organization racketeer | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "racketeer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), dallaveraxhi. (various references) | |
Arabic | المبتز (blackmailer), إبتز المال (graft, squeeze). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ракетьор, занимавам се с изнудване, изнудвач (blackmailer, exactor, extortionist, shark, squeezer), изнудвам (gouge, hijack, ramp, screw, shark). (various references) | |
Chinese | '索致利者. (various references) | |
Czech | rámusit (pother), vydìraè (blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist), podvodník (cheat, con man, confidence trickster, conman, crook, deceiver, dodger, fake, fiddler, fraud, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, rascal, runner, shark, sharper, swindler, trickster), muèitel (tormentor), gauner (crook, scoundrel, villain), èlen bandy. (various references) | |
Farsi | قلدرباجگیر, قاچاقچی (Smuggler), ازراه قاچاق یاشیادی پول بدست اوردن . (various references) | |
French | racketteur, racketter. (various references) | |
German | gangster (bandit, gangster, gangsters, gunman, hood, hoodlum, mobster, raider, thug). (various references) | |
Greek | κακούργοσ (criminal, desperado, felon, ruffian, ruffianly, thug, yegg), εκβιαστήσ (blackmailer, extortioner). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"תפר ס מסחט ות, סחטן (blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist), וכל (charlatan, crafty, crook, impostor, knave, miscreant, rogue, scoundrel, shark, sharper, swindrel, trickster). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsaroló (blackmailer, exactor, extortionate, extortioner, extortionist), gengszter (gangster, hijacker, hood, hoodlum, mobster, plug ugly, thug). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemeras (blackmailer). (various references) | |
Italian | ricattatore (blackmailer), truffatore - ricattatore, truffatore (blackmailer, cheat, crook, rook, trickster). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 的屋 (faker, stall-keeper). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | てきや (faker, stall-keeper). (various references) | |
Korean | 협박꾼. (various references) | |
Manx | raggyrnoilee, obbree cam. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acketeerray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gângster (gangster, hoodlum, mobster), extorsionário, escroque (mobster, rook, shark, sharp, sharper, swindler, trickster). (various references) | |
Romanian | speculant (adventurer, bear, extortioner, huckster, jobber, profiteer, speculator), scandalagiu (Barker, blusterer, brawler, kicker, peace-breaker, rioter, rough customer, rowdy), ciubucar (scrounger), chefliu (bacchanal, bacchanalian, boozer, carouser, drinker, elevated, jolly, merry maker, reveller, rioter, rip, tippler, trump), şantajist, afacerist (businessman, huckster), învârtit (upstart, whirled). (various references) | |
Russian | вымогатель (bleeder, exactor, extortioner, extortionist, flay-flint, horseleech, leech, shark), бандит-вымогатель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reketaš, uterivati dugove, ucenjivač (blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist). (various references) | |
Spanish | chantajista (blackmailer). (various references) | |
Swedish | utpressare (blackmailer, bleeder, extortioner, flay-flint), gangster (gangsman, gangster, gun, highbinder, mobster, thug). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ที่หาเงินจากกิจกรรมที่ผิ"กฎหมาย, หาเงินจากกิจกรรมที่ผิ"กฎหมาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | vurguncu (adventurer, dodger, fly-by-night, jobber, looter, profiteer, spiv), karaborsacı (black marketeer, jobber, spiv, tout), haraççı, haraç almak, gangster (gangster, gunsel, hoodlum, mobster, plugugly), dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), düzenbaz (bilker, crafty, cross, deceitful, deceiver, designing, falsifier, gadgety, impostor, intriguer, intriguing, left handed, pettifogging, rogue, roguish, serpentine, shammer, shyster, tartar, trickster, tricky), şantajla para almak (gouge), şantajcı (blackmailer, bleeder), şantaj yapmak (blackmail). (various references) | |
Ukranian | рекетир, шахрай (beat, bilker, charlatan, cheat, deceiver, doer, gambler, jockey, knave, phony, picaroon, prick, rascal, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, shark, sharp, sharper, swindler), шантажувати (blackmail, bull-dose, intimidate), крутій (pettifogger, scamp, snipe), вимагати (ask, call for, challenge, charge, claim, cry for, demand, extort, importune, necessitate, postulate, require, sweat out, want, wring), займатися аферами, бути бандитом. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | găngxtơ (gangster). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "racketeer": racketeered, racketeering, racketeers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "racketeer": antiracketeering. (additional references) | |
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"Racketeer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: basketeer, rackateer, raketeer, rocketeer, Sacksteder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "racketeer" (pronounced ra'kuti"r) |
| 5 | -k u t i" r | marketeer. |
| 4 | -u t i" r | budgeteer, pamphleteer, profiteer, summiteer. |
| 3 | -t i" r | austere, frontier, steer, volunteer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-k-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: recreate. | |
-2 letters: caterer, erecter, recrate, reerect, retaker, retrace, retrack, terrace, tracker. | |
-3 letters: career, carter, cerate, crater, create, ecarte, krater, racker, racket, reeker, rerack, retack, retake, retear, tacker, tearer, terrae, tracer. | |
-4 letters: ackee, arete, carer, caret, carte, cater, crake, crate, creak, creek, eater, erect, racer, rakee, raker, rater, react, recta, taker, tarre, terce, terra, trace, track. | |
-5 letters: acre, akee, cake, care, cark, carr, cart, cate, cere, cete, kart, keet, race, rack, rake, rare, rate, rear, reck, reek, rete, tace, tack, take, tare, teak, tear, tree, trek. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-k-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: racketeers. | |
+2 letters: racketeered. | |
+3 letters: racketeering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 63 6B 65 74 65 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.-. -.- . - . . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 01100101 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a c k e t e e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0063 006B 0065 0074 0065 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526769777186717184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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