racketeer

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racketeer 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 敲诈者, 骗子

v. 诈骗钱财

英文释义

n. someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)

v. carry on illegal business activities involving crime

racketeer 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 racketeer 在自然语境里怎么用：

Several of its claims, including a laughable invocation of racketeering law, have been dismissed.

—— Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court showdown will dish the dirt

In 1985, Lemann was commissioned to write a piece for Vanity Fair covering the trial of debauched Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards, who had been charged with bribery and racketeering.

—— Why you should be reading Nancy Lemann’s nonfiction, too.

From a distance, this resembled the progress of a racketeering case, in which prosecutors often start by picking off street-level pawns and then work their way up to the kingpins.

—— New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy

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