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Meanings of the mafia in English
Highly organized Italian-American criminal society.
Organized crimes syndicate originating in Sicily.
Related terms
Usage of the mafia in English
1
Their Italian former business partner has denied having connections with the mafia.
2
People often ask me if I'm afraid the mafia will kill me.
3
Bobby Kennedy's made the mafia public enemy number two-afterJimmy Hoffa.
4
This is a war of the Ukrainian people against the mafia.
5
Just like the mafia, nothing supersedes family when it comes to Munster rugby.
6
It's rather like the mafia, I guess, Radcliffe said in 2010.
7
Al Qaeda is to terror what the mafia is to crime.
8
I am not Al Capone, that we are not the mafia, he said.
9
Breaking the mafia will go from being his crusade to being the nation's.
10
He took on everyone from Jimmy Hoffa to the mafia to white segregationists.
11
For the mafia, it may have been a great opportunity, prosecutors in Rome say.
12
Their Italian former business partner denies connections to the mafia.
13
He inhabits the mafia, the trade unions, undercover smuggling rings.
14
As a kid, I looked past his drug addiction and involvement with the mafia.
15
Investing in Bulgaria without paying bribes or encountering the mafia is almost impossible, they say.
16
Tancredi was arrested on suspicion of running an international criminal group that favours the mafia.
Translations for the mafia
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