anti-racketeering law
- noun
- /ˌæn.tiˌræk.ɪˈtɪr.ɪŋ lɔː/
- Specialized
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ley antiracket
- In response to rising crime rates, the state enacted an anti-racketeering law that allows asset seizure from criminal enterprises.
Examples
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Many mobsters were prosecuted under the federal anti-racketeering law.
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The government passed a new anti-racketeering law to cripple criminal organizations.
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Lawyers debated the effectiveness of the anti-racketeering law in deterring white-collar crime.
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The new anti-racketeering law was passed last week.
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Many states have enacted anti-racketeering laws to fight crime.
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The government passed a new anti-racketeering law to cripple organized crime operations.
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Lawyers have seen a significant increase in cases involving the federal anti-racketeering law recently.
Synonyms
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A U.S. federal law that punishes organized crime and lets authorities seize money and property
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A U.S. law that lets prosecutors punish and take money and property from organized crime groups
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United States law from 1970 used to fight organized crime by giving stronger punishments
How Strict
Surface Forms
Morphology
anti-racketeering + law
The meaning is directly compositional: 'anti-' (against) + 'racketeering' (criminal activity) + 'law' yields 'a law against racketeering.' This follows a regular morphological pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning (though the lexical item 'racketeering' itself may be less familiar).
Etymology
Anti-racketeering law comes from racket, a word for a criminal 'business' that makes money by tricks or by forcing people to pay for 'protection'. So an anti-racketeering law is a law made to stop those illegal rackets and punish the people who run them.