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Meanings of racket in English
The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.
An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit.
Synonyms
Examples for "fraudulent scheme"
Examples for "fraudulent scheme"
1
According to investigators, the universities were not aware of the fraudulent scheme.
2
According to investigators, the universities themselves were not aware of the fraudulent scheme.
3
The Glitnir committee said it was complicit in the other defendants' alleged fraudulent scheme.
4
Two other men involved in the fraudulent scheme were sentenced to 10 months' home detention.
5
I didn't have any connection with any fraudulent scheme.
Usage of racket in English
1
Martins said, 'The police have implicated Harry in a very serious racket.
2
Still, this was about racket, not reality, and Dominique probably was right.
3
To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
4
Later she said of her racket abuse: I just threw my racket.
5
What with all this racket, I can't really hear you too good.
6
The racket kept up till the sky in the east was gray.
7
As he often insisted, pimping was an identity, not simply a racket.
8
Spaceport staff had a nice racket going ripping off the new colonists.
9
Such was the racket no one noticed the sound of the wings.
10
During this struggle, I could hear some sort of racket going on.
11
He can hardly be asleep with all this racket in the house.
12
You are quite unfit for the noise and racket of the holidays.
13
The weight and size of the racket will depend on our strength.
14
The racket and confusion, shouts, profanity and general awkwardness were something tremendous.
15
Authorities alleged that the had been running a global racket for decades.
16
Templeton's teeth scraped loudly against the wood and made quite a racket.
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Racket through the time
Racket across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common