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CRIME SYNDICATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crime syndicate mean?
• CRIME SYNDICATE (noun)
The noun CRIME SYNDICATE has 1 sense:
1. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Familiarity information: CRIME SYNDICATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
crime syndicate; family; mob; syndicate
Hypernyms ("crime syndicate" is a kind of...):
gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crime syndicate"):
Cosa Nostra; Maffia; Mafia (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia)
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