"protection racket" meaning in English

See protection racket in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: protection rackets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} protection racket (plural protection rackets)
  1. (crime) A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property. Wikipedia link: protection racket Categories (topical): Crime Related terms: protection money, extortion, vigilante Translations (criminal extortion scheme): suojeluraha (Finnish), racket [masculine] (French), Schutzgelderpressung [feminine] (German), haracz [masculine] (Polish), крышева́ние (kryševánije) [neuter] (Russian), beskyddarverksamhet [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for protection racket meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "protection rackets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "protection racket (plural protection rackets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Crime",
          "orig": "en:Crime",
          "parents": [
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Law",
            "All topics",
            "Justice",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property."
      ],
      "id": "en-protection_racket-en-noun-tr44xgbJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "scheme",
          "scheme"
        ],
        [
          "victim",
          "victim"
        ],
        [
          "violence",
          "violence"
        ],
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "crime",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(crime) A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "protection money"
        },
        {
          "word": "extortion"
        },
        {
          "word": "vigilante"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
          "word": "suojeluraha"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "racket"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schutzgelderpressung"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "haracz"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kryševánije",
          "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "крышева́ние"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "beskyddarverksamhet"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "protection racket"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "protection racket"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "protection rackets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "protection racket (plural protection rackets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "protection money"
    },
    {
      "word": "extortion"
    },
    {
      "word": "vigilante"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Crime"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "scheme",
          "scheme"
        ],
        [
          "victim",
          "victim"
        ],
        [
          "violence",
          "violence"
        ],
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "crime",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(crime) A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "protection racket"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
      "word": "suojeluraha"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "racket"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schutzgelderpressung"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "haracz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kryševánije",
      "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "крышева́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "criminal extortion scheme",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "beskyddarverksamhet"
    }
  ],
  "word": "protection racket"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.