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YAKUZA

• YAKUZA (noun)
The noun YAKUZA has 2 senses:

1. a Japanese gangster
2. organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises

Familiarity information: YAKUZA used as a noun is rare.

• YAKUZA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A Japanese gangster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("yakuza" is a kind of...):

gangster; mobster (a criminal who is a member of gang)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

Sense 2

yakuza ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("yakuza" is a kind of...):

gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

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(English proverb)
"To give happiness to another person gives such a great merit, it cannot even be carried by a horse."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"I'm up to it and to any great thing."
(Arabic proverb)
"God's mills mill slowly, but surely."
(Czech proverb)

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