Word: racketeered
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: ra
cke
teered
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of racketeer; someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
Morphemes:
Affix: racket
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
Affix: -eer
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to create an agent noun denoting someone associated with, concerned with, or engaged in a specified activity.
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.