Mafias

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of mafia form-of, plural

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black handblack marketbootleggingcosa nostracosa nostracosa nostra

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"Investigative journalist Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorra, a bestseller on the Naples-based Camorra mafia, told la Repubblica newspaper, “The pandemic is the ideal place for mafias, and the reason is simple — if you are hungry, you are looking for bread; it does not matter which oven it is baked from and who it is distributing it.”"

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