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organized crime : criminal activity on the part of an organized and extensive group of people compare racketeering ...
organized
same as arranged as an organized tour...
organized crime
Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes such as bootlegging conducting illegal gambling loansharking extortion etc a general term encompassing most forms of criminal groups but especially those that are consolidated into ldquofamiliesrdquo more or less recognizing each others different regions of operation sometimes considered synonymous with the mafia or the syndicate...
bank
bank : an organization for the custody, loan, or exchange of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds branch bank : a banking facility that is a separate but dependent part of a chartered bank ;esp : a facility that performs some banking functions and is separate from a main office bridge bank : a national bank that is chartered for a limited time to operate an insolvent bank until it is sold central bank : a national bank that establishes monetary and fiscal policy and controls the money supply and interest rate collecting bank : a bank other than the payor bank that is handling for collection a negotiable instrument or a promise or order to pay money commercial bank : a bank organized chiefly to handle the everyday financial transactions of businesses (as through deposit accounts and commercial loans) cooperative bank : an association (as a credit union) owned by and offering banking services for its members ;specif : savings and ...
corporation
corporation [Late Latin corporatio, from Latin corporare to form into a body, from corpor- corpus body] : an invisible, intangible, artificial creation of the law existing as a voluntary chartered association of individuals that has most of the rights and duties of natural persons but with perpetual existence and limited liability see also pierce compare association, partnership, sole proprietorship close corporation [klōs-] : a corporation whose shares are held by a small number of individuals (as management) and not publicly traded ;specif : small business corporation in this entry called also closely held corporation compare public corporation in this entry foreign corporation : a corporation organized under the laws of a state or government other than that in which it is doing business government corporation : public corporation in this entry moneyed corporation : a corporation (as a bank) authorized to engage in the investment, exchange, or lending of moneyed capit...
rico (racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act)
rico (racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act) A federal (or state) law designed to investigate, control and prosecute organized crime, and to combat the infiltration of organized crime into legitimate business. Source: FindLaw ...
state
state often attrib 1 a : a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory ;esp : one that is sovereign b : the political organization that has supreme civil authority and political power and serves as the basis of government see also compelling state interest at interest, separation of church and state c : a government or politically organized society having a particular character [a police ] 2 : the operations or concerns of the government of a country : the sphere of administration and supreme political power of a country (as in international relations) [secrets of ] [affairs of ] 3 a : one of the constituent units of a nation having a federal government ;specif : one of the fifty such units comprising the great part of the U.S. see also state law b : the territory of a state ...
stock exchange
stock exchange 1 : a place where security trading is conducted on an organized system 2 : an association or group of people organized to provide an auction market among themselves for the purchase and sale of securities ...
syndicate
syndicate [French syndicat the office or jurisdiction of a syndic] 1 : a group organized to carry out a particular transaction or enterprise 2 : an association of organized criminals [sin-di-kāt] vb -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to form or manage as or through a syndicate [a syndicated tax shelter] vi : to unite to form a syndicate syn·di·ca·tion [sin-di-kā-shən] n ...
Organize
To furnish with organs to give an organic structure to to endow with capacity for the functions of life as an organized being organized matter in this sense used chiefly in the past participle...
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