Black Market Definition
blăkmärkĭt
black-markets
noun
The illegal business of buying or selling currency or goods banned by a government or subject to governmental control, such as price controls or rationing.
American Heritage
A place or system for selling goods illegally, as in violation of rationing.
Webster's New World
A place where such illegal business is carried on.
American Heritage
Trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls.
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verb
To trade (something) in the black market.
American Heritage
(intransitive) To participate in a black market.
He black-marketed as a sideline.
Wiktionary
To sell in a black market.
He made his living black-marketing goods intended only for tourists.
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adjective
Traded on the black market.
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Contraband, bootleg or smuggled.
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black market
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