organized crime

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   underworld organizations

   Synonymsganglandgangdom

   Broadersocial group

   NarroweryakuzaMafiaBlack HandCamorrasyndicate

   Part ofunderworld

Questions about organized crime

What does organized crime mean?

organized crime means "underworld organizations".

What is another word for organized crime?

Close synonyms include gangland, gangdom. 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 organized crime a common word?

organized crime 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.