organized crime

English

Alternative forms

• organised crime

Pronunciation

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Noun

organized crime (uncountable)

1. A large criminal organization, or a group of such organizations, that deals in illegal goods and services.

   Organized crime is largely responsible for the nation’s illicit drug trafficking.

2. The crimes perpetrated by those organizations.

   Organized crime has dramatically increased in our neighbourhood.

   • 2025 March 19, Hira Humayun and Michael Rios, “Ecuador’s president invites foreign armies to fight gangs in the country”, in CNN‎^[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 5 August 2025:

     The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime and narcotics.

Derived terms

• OCB (organized crime bureau)
• OCCB (NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau)
• OCTB (HKPF Organised Crime and Triad Bureau)

Translations

criminal organizations seen as a whole

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جَرِيمة مُنَظَّمة f (jarīma(t) munaẓẓama)
• Armenian: կազմակերպված հանցավորություն (hy) (kazmakerpvac hancʻavorutʻyun)
• Belarusian: арганізаваная злачыннасць f (arhanizavanaja zlačynnascʹ)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 犯罪組織 / 犯罪组织 (faan⁶ zeoi⁶ zou² zik¹)

  Mandarin: 犯罪組織 / 犯罪组织 (fànzuì zǔzhī)

• Czech: organizovaný zločin m
• Danish: organiseret kriminalitet c
• Dutch: georganiseerde misdaad f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: järjestäytynyt rikollisuus (fi)
• French: crime organisé m
• Galician: crime organizado m
• Georgian: ორგანიზებული დამნაშავეობა (organizebuli damnašaveoba), ორგანიზებული დანაშაულებრიობა (organizebuli današaulebrioba), ორგანიზებული დანაშაული (organizebuli današauli)
• German: organisiertes Verbrechen (de) n, organisierte Kriminalität f
• Hungarian: szervezett bűnözés
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 組織犯罪 (そしきはんざい, soshiki hanzai)
• Khmer: ឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មដែលមានអង្គការចាត់តាំង (ʼokkrətkam dael miən ʼɑng kaa cat tang)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: зохион байгуулалттай гэмт хэрэг (zoxion baiguulalttai gemt xereg)
• Polish: przestępczość zorganizowana f
• Portuguese: crime organizado m
• Romanian: crimă organizată f
• Russian: организо́ванная престу́пность (ru) f (organizóvannaja prestúpnostʹ)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: crimen organizado m, hampa (es) f
• Swedish: organiserad brottslighet (sv) c, organiserad kriminalitet c
• Thai: องค์กรอาชญากรรม (ong gon àatyaagam)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: організо́вана злочи́нність f (orhanizóvana zločýnnistʹ)
• Vietnamese: tổ chức tội phạm

crimes carried out by these organizations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有組織犯罪 / 有组织犯罪 (yǒuzǔzhī fànzuì)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: järjestäytynyt rikollisuus
• German: organisiertes Verbrechen (de) n, organisierte Kriminalität f
• Indonesian: kejahatan terorganisasi, kejahatan terorganisir
• Kazakh: ұйымдасқан қылмыстылық (uyımdasqan qılmıstılıq)
• Malay: jenayah terancang
• Polish: przestępczość zorganizowana f
• Portuguese: crime organizado m
• Romanian: crimă (organizată) (ro) f
• Russian: организо́ванная престу́пность (ru) f (organizóvannaja prestúpnostʹ)
• Swedish: organiserad brottslighet (sv) c

See also

• gangland

See also

• Camorra
• Mafia
• mob
• triad
• yakuza