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Definition of Illegitimate enterprise
1. Noun. An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit.
Generic synonyms: Endeavor, Endeavour, Enterprise
Derivative terms: Racketeer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illegitimate Enterprise
Literary usage of Illegitimate enterprise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gang Suppression & Intervention: An Assessment by Irving A. Spergel (1993)
"... of the concept of the gang is the idea of territoriality or turf—originally
control of physical space but also increasingly of illegitimate enterprise. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... he would hardly risk its investment in an illegitimate enterprise which might
be swooped down upon at any moment by government officers and utterly ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"Thousands have been stricken down by the delusions of speculation and the revulsions
of trade. Capital invested in legitimate and illegitimate enterprise ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1841)
"Capital invested in I -primate and illegitimate enterprise has perished in each.
The coasts of commercial life are thick strewn with the spars and hulls of ..."
5. The diplomatic protection of citizens abroad or the law of international claims by Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1915)
"... to an American citizen who intends to accomplish a criminal purpose or to use
it in the protection of an illegitimate enterprise.5 Diplomatic protection ..."
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