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What does Mafia mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Mafia? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (specifically) An international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
  2. (by extension) Any organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.
  3. A party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). 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".
  4. Alternative letter-case form of mafia (an entity which attempts to control a specified arena).
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The fact that he was an unprincipled liar whose election was bought with Mafia help counted for nothing.
The sea around Mafia is a tropical Marine Park ranging from coral reefs, sea-grass beds, mangroves and inter-tidal flats.
It's the equivalent of a Mafia don writing the lead article in some law enforcement journal.
John's father, Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger during the prohibition and was also tied up with Mafia.
He knows the exercise of arbitrary power by studio heads, easily comparable to Mafia godfathers.
The scene was reminiscent of the Mafia godfather who goes to confession on Sunday before returning to his normal criminal activities on Monday.

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