English-Dutch translations for Mafia

• maffia
  De enige dienst die daar werkt, is de maffia. The only service that operates there is the mafia.
  De maffia raakt bij de handel betrokken. The Mafia gets involved in this business.
  De maffia was almachtig, terwijl de burgers rechteloos waren. The mafia was all-powerful, while citizens had no rights.

Definition of Mafia

• An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States
• Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime;
• A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority and an uninformed majority . Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered

Examples

• Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia

Related words

• mafia
• Mafioso
• mafic
• Mafiosi
• Mafia
• ultramafic
• mafiosism