organized crime

organized crime

English

Alternative forms

• organised crime

Noun

organized crime (uncountable)

1. A large criminal organization, or a group of such organizations, that deals in illegal goods and services.

   Organized crime is largely responsible for the nation’s illicit drug trafficking.

2. The crimes perpetrated by those organizations.

   Organized crime has dramatically increased in our neighbourhood.

Translations

criminal organizations seen as a whole

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: կազմակերպված հանցավորություն (hy) (kazmakerpvac hancʿavorutʿyun) Belarusian: арганізаваная злачыннасць f (arhanizavanaja zlačynnascʹ) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Cantonese: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 犯罪組織／犯罪组织 (fànzuì zǔzhī) Czech: organizovaný zločin m Danish: organiseret kriminalitet c Dutch: georganiseerde misdaad f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: järjestäytynyt rikollisuus (fi) French: crime organisé m Galician: crime organizado m German: organisierte Kriminalität f, organisiertes Verbrechen n Hungarian: szervezett bűnözés Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 組織犯罪 (そしきはんざい, soshiki hanzai) Khmer: ឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មដែលមានអង្គការចាត់តាំង (ʼokkrətkam dael miən ʼɑng kaa cat tang) Korean: please add this translation if you can Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: зохион байгуулалттай гэмт хэрэг (zoxion bajguulalttaj gemt xereg) Polish: przestępczość zorganizowana f Portuguese: crime organizado m Romanian: crimă organizată f Russian: организо́ванная престу́пность (ru) f (organizóvannaja prestúpnostʹ) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: crimen organizado m, hampa (es) f Swedish: organiserad brottslighet (sv) c, organiserad kriminalitet c Thai: องค์กรอาชญากรรม (ong gon àatyaagam) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: організо́вана злочи́нність f (orhanizóvana zločýnnistʹ) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

crimes carried out by these organizations

Chinese: Mandarin: 有組織犯罪／有组织犯罪 (yǒuzǔzhī fànzuì) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: järjestäytynyt rikollisuus German: organisiertes Verbrechen n, organisierte Kriminalität f Kazakh: ұйымдасқан қылмыстылық (ūiymdasqan qylmystylyq) Polish: przestępczość zorganizowana f Portuguese: crime organizado m Romanian: crimă (organizată) (ro) f Russian: организо́ванная престу́пность (ru) f (organizóvannaja prestúpnostʹ)

See also

• Camorra
• Mafia
• mob
• triad
• yakuza