mafia
see also: Mafia
Pronunciation Noun
Mafia
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Mafia
Pronunciation Noun
mafia (plural mafias)
- A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
- A crime syndicate.
- A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
- (in compound terms such as "moral mafia") An entity which attempts to control a specified arena.
- the digital mafia
- the literary mafia
Mafia
Pronunciation Proper noun
- (specifically) An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
- Synonyms: Cosa Nostra
- (by extension) Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.
- Synonyms: mob
- Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia.
- A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".
- Alternative letter-case form of mafia (“an entity which attempts to control a specified arena”)
- German: Mafia
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