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black market
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun black market has 2 senses
- black market(n = noun.group) Array - people who engage in illicit trade; Array is a kind of market
- black market(n = noun.act) Array - an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls; Array is a kind of market, market place, marketplace
Derived form verb black market1
Derived form verb black market1
Verb black market has 1 sense
- black market(v = verb.possession) run - deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor; Array is one way to merchandise, trade
Derived forms noun black market2, noun black market1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
black market, n.
- the illicit buying and selling of goods, in violation of price controls, rationing, tax laws, prohibition of sale, etc. [PJC]
- a place where such illegal commerce is conducted, or the entire system of such illicit commerce considered as a whole; as, the black market accounts for twenty percent of the Ukrainian economy. [PJC]
THESAURUS
black market
Cosa Nostra, Mafia, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, black-marketeer, bootleg, bootlegging, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, felonious, fence, flawed, gambling, gray market, illegal, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate, illegitimate business, illicit, illicit business, impermissible, irregular, justiciable, lawless, loan-sharking, moonshine, moonshining, narcotics traffic, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, organized crime, outlaw, outlawed, prostitution, protection racket, punishable, push, racket, shady dealings, shove, the rackets, the syndicate, traffic in women, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usury, white slavery, wrongful
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