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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker

Meaning of "the Mafia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE MAFIA

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WHAT DOES THE MAFIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

the Mafia

Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra, in English "Our Thing") is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering. Each group, known as a "family", "clan", or "cosca", claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (borgata) of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. Its members call themselves "men of honour", although the public often refers to them as "mafiosi". By 2004, its annual revenue had reached 30 billion euro, equivalent to one third of the 90 billion euro total annual revenue for Italian organized crime groups estimated by Confesercenti, one of the leading business associations in Italy. (Italy's National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Piero Grasso suggests the total annual income for Italian organized crime groups may be much higher -- near 135 billion euro -- due to arms and narcotics trafficking not considered in Confesercenti's calculations.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE MAFIA

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the madam
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the Man
the Mansion House
the many
the Maple Leaf
the Marches
the Maritime Provinces
the mark
the market
the Marseillaise
the masses
the master
the matter
the Mayflower
the Mearns

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE MAFIA

Algeria
Arabia
Asia
Australia
Austria
Bahasa Indonesia
Bolivia
Bosnia
Bulgaria
California
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Maffia
Mafia
raffia
Rafia
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Sofia
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Synonyms and antonyms of the Mafia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the Mafia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE MAFIA

Find out the translation of the Mafia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the Mafia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the Mafia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黑手党
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la mafia
570 millions of speakers

English

the Mafia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

माफिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المافيا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Мафия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Máfia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মাফিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la mafia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mafia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Mafia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マフィア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마피아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing Mafia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Mafia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாஃபியா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

माफिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mafya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

la mafia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Mafia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мафія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Mafia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

η Μαφία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die Mafia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

maffian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mafiaen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the Mafia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE MAFIA»

The term «the Mafia» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.597 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE MAFIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the Mafia

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10 QUOTES WITH «THE MAFIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the Mafia.
1
Barbara Amiel
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
2
Russell Baker
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
3
Stanley Crouch
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
4
Tom Folsom
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.
5
Stefano Gabbana
We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.
6
Louis Gossett, Jr.
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.
7
Douglas Horton
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
8
Davy Jones
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
9
Brenda Lee
I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.
10
Chazz Palminteri
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE MAFIA»

Discover the use of the Mafia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the Mafia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
Only able to visit his young family once every few months, Pistone - under the alias Donnie Brasco - ate, drank, partied, worked and sometimes killed with the wiseguys.
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley, 2006
2
History of the Mafia
Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition.
Salvatore Lupo, 2013
3
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring ...
As part of an undercover operation, Gaubatz and his team revealed a well-funded conspiracy to destroy American society and promote radical Islam.
P. David Gaubatz, Paul E. Sperry, 2009
4
The Mafia Encyclopedia
In The Mafia Encyclopedia, Third Edition, Carl Sifakis once again provides a fascinating survey of the mobOCOs most influential perpetrators and personalities, including their hangouts and hideaways, their plays for power, their schemes and ...
Carl Sifakis, 2005
5
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity.
John Dickie, 2007
6
The Everything Mafia Book: True-life accounts of legendary ...
This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the major players in the American Mafia.
Scott M Dietche, 2009
7
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Mafia Family and ...
CONTAINS A NEW EPILOGUE Mafia Prince is the first person account of one of the most brutal eras in Mafia history—“Little Nicky” Scarfo’s reign as boss of the Philadelphia family in the 1980s—written by Scarfo’s underboss and ...
Philip Leonetti, 2012
8
Secrets of Life and Death: Women and the Mafia
Secrets of Life and Death is the first book to focus on women whose lives are entangled in the workings of the mafia.
Renate Siebert, 1996
9
The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
The Mafia, this book suggests, is not nearly as bizarre as all that, not nearly as remote as we might think. In fact, as Diego Gambetta's analysis unfolds, the Mafia begins to resemble any other business.
Diego Gambetta, 1996
10
Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures
This book pulls back the code of silence and shines a light on the dark image of women entangled in organized crime.
Giovanni Fiandaca, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE MAFIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the Mafia is used in the context of the following news items.
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FIFA compares unfavourably to Mafia, says US senator
Comparing FIFA to the Mafia is "almost insulting to the Mafia," a US senator said Thursday, turning up the heat on football's corruption-tainted world governing ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
Interview: Italy's new president lost his brother to the Mafia
“Many people hope that this kind of figure will step up the fight against the mafia and organized crime,” said Mazzanti, adding that, “Renzy played the part of ... «euronews, Jan 15»
3
Pope Francis May Be Risking His Life by Taking on the Mafia
ROME, Italy — When Sicilian Mafia superboss Bernardo Provenzano was nabbed in a little farmhouse near Corleone, Sicily, in April 2006 after 43 years on the ... «Daily Beast, Jun 14»
4
A casual boast solves a century-old mafia murder in Sicily
The year is 1909, and New York City police detective Joe Petrosino goes to Sicily on a secret mission to investigate the mafia. In a park in the capital of Palermo, ... «Public Radio International, Jun 14»
5
Sharpton Is Linked to Spying on the Mafia
Al Sharpton was an F.B.I. informer who had extensive dealings with Mafia figures in New York in the 1980s and secretly recorded their conversations using a ... «New York Times, Apr 14»
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Pope to Mafia: Stop the Violence or Go to Hell
Pope Francis delivered a fire-and-brimstone message to the Mafia on Friday: "Repent." "Blood-stained money, blood-stained power — you can't bring it with you ... «NBCNews.com, Mar 14»
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Would the Mafia target Pope Francis over Vatican reforms?
Italy's Mafia problem is as old as the Italian state. The three major Mafias -- the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta, and Cosa Nostra -- originated in the political violence ... «CNN, Nov 13»
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Mafia boss on the run since 1994 arrested in London
Domenico Rancadore, the mafia boss who has been detained on a European arrest warrant. Photograph: Italian Interior Minister Press Office/AFP/Getty Images. «The Guardian, Aug 13»
9
Pope Francis takes aim at the Mafia
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis has hailed a priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia and urged mobsters to stop exploiting people in criminal rackets including ... «CBS News, May 13»
10
Andreotti, Ex-Italian Premier Linked to Mafia, Dies at 94
May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time Italian prime minister whose legacy was marred by an indictment for collusion with the Mafia, has died. «Bloomberg, May 13»

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