racket
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- noun
- /ˈrækɪt/
- "You can't afford national sovereignty when you're trying to break up the narcotics racket."
- a protection racket
- run a racket
- an extortion racket
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Watch on YouTubeBut it's all really just a racket though, like anything else in life, he says.
- But it's all really just a racket though, like anything else in life, he says.
- I mean, it's, it's sort of paying protection money for his, his little racket.
- They was meant to care, giving them a pittance, running it all like that, a racket.
- Anybody who wanted to get out of the corruption racket could have embraced the now politically homeless labor force.
- If not, then hell, don't don't bother because it's a hard racket.
- Would I have fucking had it with is the racket that is senior in high school graduation.
- And yet before you know it, it's like a mental health therapy masquerading as a racket pursuit.
Examples
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Anybody who wanted to get out of the corruption racket could have embraced the now politically homeless labor force.
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He's a part-time cop that enjoys power and he's trading protection for food and it's nothing but a racket.
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But it's all really just a racket though, like anything else in life, he says.
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I got fed up with the education racket.
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Every one of these guys were in different rackets together.
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You know, I've been in this racket 25 years, you guys.
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And let's face it, the weight loss industry is a total racket, a cash machine that runs on our desperation.
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I've been wanting out of the racket for years, and now I'm out.
Fiction book (1990) -
Are you aware that Latesha Rodriguez has been running a counterfeit driver's licence racket?
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The authorities uncovered a major illegal drug racket operating in the city.
Synonyms
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4.0
Deceiving someone to get money or an unfair advantage
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3.0
A dishonest plan to get money by tricking people
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7.2
A dishonest trick to get someone's money or things
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9.9
Illegal business deals that get money for organized crime groups
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8.5
A dishonest plan where people pay to join and only earn money by recruiting others, not by selling things
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8.0
A dishonest plan to trick people and take their money
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6.3
An illegal plan to get money by tricking people
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9.9
An illegal lottery where people secretly bet on numbers
A business that breaks the law to make money
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Compounds
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3.4
A light piece of sports equipment with a long handle and a small oval head used to play squash
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2.6
A light, long-handled frame with strings used to hit the shuttlecock in badminton
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Etymology
Racket meaning an illegal business grew from early slang for a dishonest scheme, as in the phrase 'protection racket', so a racket is a business that makes money by threats or fraud.