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▸ noun: The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
▸ noun: Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.
▸ noun: 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".
▸ noun: A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
▸ noun: A crime syndicate.
▸ noun: A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
▸ noun: (in compound terms such as "moral mafia") An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.
Similar:
Cosa Nostra,
Maffia,
Sicilian Mafia,
mobsterism,
Mafioso,
mobbist,
Mafiosa,
mafiya,
mobbism,
mobocracy,
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Types:
CosNostra,
Camorra,
'Ndrangheta,
SacrCoronUnita,
Yakuza,
Triad,
RussiMafia,
AlbaniMafia,
MexicMafia,
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