English-Latvian translations for mafia

• mafija
  Mafija iesaistās šajā komercdarbībā. The Mafia gets involved in this business.
  Vienīgais sabiedriskais dienests, kas tur darbojas, ir mafija. The only service that operates there is the mafia.
  Acīmredzot te neapšaubāmi ir iesaistīta arī mafija. Obviously, the mafia, too, clearly has a hand in this.

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