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Racketeer vs Blackmailing - What's the difference?

racketeer | blackmailing |

As nouns the difference between racketeer and blackmailing

is that racketeer is one who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business while blackmailing is the act of one who blackmails.

As verbs the difference between racketeer and blackmailing

is that racketeer is to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes while blackmailing is present participle of lang=en.

racketeer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • one who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business.
  • one who instigates or has involvement with a racket.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes.
  • to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal organization.

    • blackmailing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who blackmails.
  • * Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
    • All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings .