English-Estonian translations for mafia

• maffia
  Ainus teenistus, mis seal tegutseb, on maffia. The only service that operates there is the mafia.
  Maffia oli kõikvõimas, kuid kodanikel ei olnud mitte mingisuguseid õigusi. The mafia was all-powerful, while citizens had no rights.
  Kõik muu on vähem läbipaistev kui maffia. Everything else is less transparent than the Mafia.

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

• Mafioso
• mafic
• Mafiosi
• ultramafic
• mafiosism