Word.ws English Dictionary

racketeered

racketeered is the simple past and past participle of racketeer.

Meaning of racketeer

Verb

racketeer (third-person singular simple present racketeers, present participle racketeering, simple past and past participle racketeered)

  1. to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes.
  2. to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal organization.

See all 4 meanings of racketeer

Questions about racketeered

What is racketeered the simple past and past participle of?
Racketeered is the simple past and past participle of racketeer.

Words near racketeered in the dictionary

  1. racketbuster
  2. racketbusters
  3. racketbusting
  4. racketed
  5. racketeer
  6. racketeered
  7. racketeering
  8. racketeerings
  9. racketeers
  10. racketer
  11. racketers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: racketeered (page history and authors); racketeer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “racketeered.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/racketeered. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.