mafia
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English
Etymology
See Mafia. The sense "entity which attempts to control a specified arena" makes an analogy to crime-syndicate mafias' attempts to control certain kinds of business in the regions in which they exist.
Pronunciation
Noun
mafia (plural mafias)
- A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
- A crime syndicate.
- A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
- (in compound terms such as "moral mafia") An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.
- 1994, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, page 161:
- Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.
- 2000, Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century, page 432:
- Since the victory of gadgetry is "inevitable," you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.
- 2019, Anne Holt, In Dust and Ashes, page 83:
- I can scarcely leave the apartment without being engulfed by journalists, not to mention the fucking left-wing activists and the multicultural mafia that assailed me with spitting and verbal abuse the last time I ventured out […]
Derived terms
Translations
a crime syndicate
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Danish
Etymology
Noun
mafia c (singular definite mafiaen, plural indefinite mafiaer)
- A mafia.
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | mafia | mafiaen | mafiaer | mafiaerne |
| genitive | mafias | mafiaens | mafiaers | mafiaernes |
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mafia
Declension
| Inflection of mafia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mafia | mafiat | |
| genitive | mafian | mafioiden mafioitten | |
| partitive | mafiaa | mafioita | |
| illative | mafiaan | mafioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mafia | mafiat | |
| accusative | nom. | mafia | mafiat |
| gen. | mafian | ||
| genitive | mafian | mafioiden mafioitten mafiain rare | |
| partitive | mafiaa | mafioita | |
| inessive | mafiassa | mafioissa | |
| elative | mafiasta | mafioista | |
| illative | mafiaan | mafioihin | |
| adessive | mafialla | mafioilla | |
| ablative | mafialta | mafioilta | |
| allative | mafialle | mafioille | |
| essive | mafiana | mafioina | |
| translative | mafiaksi | mafioiksi | |
| abessive | mafiatta | mafioitta | |
| instructive | — | mafioin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Further reading
- “mafia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
Pronunciation
Noun
mafia f (plural mafias)
- the Mafia
Further reading
- “mafia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
Noun
mafia f (plural mafias)
Derived terms
Italian
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Sicilian
Spanish
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