ORGANIZED CRIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organized crime mean? 

• ORGANIZED CRIME (noun)
  The noun ORGANIZED CRIME has 1 sense:

1. underworld organizations

  Familiarity information: ORGANIZED CRIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGANIZED CRIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Underworld organizations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

gangdom; gangland; organized crime

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

social group (people sharing some social relation)

Meronyms (members of "organized crime"):

gang; mob; pack; ring (an association of criminals)

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

yakuza (organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises)

Maffia; Mafia; Sicilian Mafia (a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century)

Black Hand (a secret terrorist society in the United States early in the 20th century)

Camorra (a secret society in Naples notorious for violence and blackmail)

crime syndicate; family; mob; syndicate (a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities)

Holonyms ("organized crime" is a member of...):

underworld (the criminal class)