Mafia

Quick meaning: Mafia is a noun meaning A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.

Meaning

A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.

More Meanings

1. A crime syndicate.
2. A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
3. (in compounds) An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.

Example Sentences

Since the victory of gadgetry is "inevitable," you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.

Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.

I can scarcely leave the apartment without being engulfed by journalists, not to mention the fucking left-wing activists and the multicultural mafia that assailed me with spitting and verbal abuse the last time I ventured out […]

Word Forms

• mafias
• maffia

Synonyms for mafia

Depending on context, synonyms include maffia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maffia, mobster, syndicate, gangster, racketeering, mob.

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