Synonyms for mafia
ˈmɑ fi ə, ˈmæf i əmafi·a

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mafianoun

   A crime syndicate

   Synonyms:
   mob, Cosa Nostra

2. Mafianoun

   A trusted group of associates of a political leader

   Somehow he managed to piss off the Russian Mafia.

   Synonyms:
   mob

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostranoun

   a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia

   Synonyms:
   maffia

2. Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian Mafianoun

   a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century

   Synonyms:
   maffia

3. mafia, maffianoun

   any tightly knit group of trusted associates

   Synonyms:
   maffia

Matched Categories

1. • Clique
   • Organized Crime
   • Syndicate
   • Terrorism

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "mafia":

   mob, mafias, mobster, shay

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How to use mafia in a sentence?

1. Manager Tahsin Yasin:

   Illegal tax collection did happen under Yanukovich. Luckily it didn't affect us then, but they are targeting us now despite supposed reforms, we are dealing with a completely unprofessional mafia who are there simply to extort as much as they can while in office.

2. Woody Allen:

   It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

3. John Gibbs:

   I think one analogy that you could look at here is the mafia, for many years, you could never arrest them. You knew they were throwing guys off roofs and stuff but all you could get them for was tax evasion and money laundering because you don't quite have the legal and investigative framework in place to catch them.

4. Dionisio Lopez:

   It's all one big mafia. We having nothing but pure corruption here in Mexico and it's proven, why pretend otherwise?

5. Michael Madden:

   Under Kim Jong Il, these guys would get their fiefdom then the leader gets to regulate it when he needs to, it's not unlike the mafia, or the Sopranos, where Tony has to make a ruling.