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Meaning of gangsterize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To adapt to the norms of gangsters, or violent organized crime.
    transitive
  2. To subject to the abuses of gangsterism.
    transitive

Examples

“1970s, Francis E. Dec, Worldwide Open Secret, tract […] such banks as Island Federal Bank of Hempstead gangsterized me and swindled me […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

gangsterized gangsterizes gangsterizing gangway gangwayed gangwaying

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