crime syndicate

1. 1.

   a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

   Synonymssyndicatemobfamily

   Broaderorganized crime

   NarrowerMafia

Questions about crime syndicate

What does crime syndicate mean?

crime syndicate means "a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities".

What is another word for crime syndicate?

Close synonyms include syndicate, mob, family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crime syndicate a common word?

crime syndicate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.