racketeering

English

Etymology

Coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.[1]

Noun

racketeering (usually uncountable, plural racketeerings)

  1. The criminal action of being involved in a racket.

Translations

Verb

racketeering

  1. present participle and gerund of racketeer

References
  1. David Witwer, "'The Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in America': The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union During the 1930s," in Corrupt Histories, Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan, eds., University of Rochester Press, 2004. →ISBN
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