racketeering
B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The operation of an illegal business or fraudulent scheme, often involving extortion or organised crime.
Federal charges of racketeering followed the discovery of a decade-long bid-rigging conspiracy.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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