0 a criminal system of taking money from people in exchange for agreeing not to hurt them or damage their property: --
1 a situation in which a criminal group demands money from a store owner, company, etc. in exchange for agreeing not to harm them: --
run a protection racket These thugs ran a vast protection racket with which all property-owners had to co-operate if they hoped to survive.
In effect, it is often a protection racket on some of the more vulnerable people in our society.
It is a protection racket at the expense of local authorities, the taxpayer and legitimate claimants.
He is not the only one involved in this protection racket.
How do the public tell the difference between a genuine service and a virtual protection racket?
We should have done something about the agricultural policy, which is the biggest protection racket ever invented by man.
Feudal power and law are nothing more nor less than an up-market protection racket.
The reason is the protection racket that is the common agricultural policy.
The protection racket has been aggravated by the clubs but it is not new.
