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Racketeering vs Extortion - What's the difference?

racketeering | extortion |

As nouns the difference between racketeering and extortion

is that racketeering is the criminal action of being involved in a racket while extortion is the practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.

As a verb racketeering

is present participle of lang=en.

racketeering

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The criminal action of being involved in a racket.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • References

    extortion

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia extortion) (en noun)
  • The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
  • Synonyms

    * blackmail