racketeer
noun
a person engaged in a racket.
racketeers
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present tense formof racketeer (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Why it needed to be a mysterious omnipotent organization, I don’t know; perhaps plain old racketeers and crooked gamblers felt insufficiently nefarious to power a boxing story in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
Mr. Civiletti was known for prosecuting racketeers, public corruption, white-collar crime and drug trafficking.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
In 1965, Mr. Cohen called Long’s claims “overblown,” insisting that the wiretaps were chiefly focused on racketeers attempting to bribe IRS personnel.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2018
Brewer-Giorgio, now 78, said the FBI enlisted Presley as an undercover agent in 1976 to help the agency infiltrate a criminal organization called “The Fraternity,” which was apparently made up of dozens of racketeers.
From Time ● Aug. 15, 2017
And the fact that I was “the young Brother Baldwin” increased my value with those same pimps and racketeers who had helped to stampede me into the church in the first place.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
