organized crime
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- noun
- /ˈɔrɡəˌnaɪzd kraɪm/
- NSFW
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crimen organizado
- The police launched a major operation to dismantle organized crime in the city.
- trafficking by organized crime
- organized crime and corruption
- drug-related organized crime
Where does the the conjoining of organized crime and politics sit exactly?
- Where does the the conjoining of organized crime and politics sit exactly?
- So they were focused on serious and organised crime in the UK.
- He, he has a lot of connections to Russian organized crime.
- What people may not understand is China's ties to organized crime and to money laundering operations.
- A lot of the funding of terrorist groups is now done through organised crime networks.
- Gangs have so much power and you know, it's organized crime.
- So we had ties, but he wasn't controlled by organized crime.
- So I, I, I get so, yeah, I mean, I get involved in organised crime.
- State sponsored cyber terrorism, organized crime and hacktivism.
- One top FBI agent says that testimony by Sammy led to the demise of organized crime in New York.
- But this guy is a gangster thick with organised crime.
- So, you know, I think I think hard about like organised crime.
- They, you know, there is, it's different with organized crime.
- It would appear from some of the some of what I'm told that organized crime criminals know where he is.
- A brave man to take on an organized crime organization that still to this day are going strong.
- And I think that it, it wouldn't stop the, the, the organised crime networks doing what they're doing, but obviously it might even force them to get be legit and pay tax as well.
- So was he, was that just like a one time kind of crime thing or was he more like organized crime and then left it and went towards like a union job, you know?
Examples
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According to some estimates, human trafficking is the fastest growing area of organized crime (United Nations, 2002).
Academic text (2008) -
With the increase of legal gambling in Europe, some organized crime groups buy companies in this field.
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The government of the United States... has a secret policy with organized crime.
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So they were focused on serious and organised crime in the UK.
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There are two main competing views of organized crime and drug markets.
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A lot of the funding of terrorist groups is now done through organised crime networks.
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Unfortunately, the Boston field office was more used to investigating organized crime and bank fraud than rocks.
Fiction book (2000) -
Some relatives believe that my father gambled at clubs that were owned by organized crime families.
Fiction book (1990) -
Police investigators still suspected the perpetrators came from the field of organized crime.
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The structures, operations, objectives, and timing of organized crime are different from those of political subversion.
Academic text (2003)
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'organized' (systematically structured) modifies 'crime' (unlawful acts), so a learner who knows both words can infer criminal activity carried out in a structured or coordinated way. This adjective+noun pattern is common across languages and follows ordinary semantic combination, making the phrase immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Organized crime comes from the image of criminals acting like a business: organized teams working together to do crime in a planned way. So it now means 'criminal groups that work together to do illegal activities'.