Similar words: blackmarket, black market, black mark, stock market, stock market index, pockmarked, pock-marked, blackmail. Meaning: adj. distributed or sold illicitly black market. n. 1. people who engage in illicit trade 2. an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls. v. deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor.
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1. He stage-managed drugs sale, black-market operations and so on.
2. Buying black-market dollars was considered the safest way to protect one's savings.
3. They sell food, black-market grain, household goods and electronics — secondhand televisions, used rice cookers, VHS machines and the like.
4. Given the plentiful availability of black-market drugs, it is hard to imagine such a policy being worse than our existing regime of classification.
5. Two Liverpool businessmen who bought the black-market cockles from Lin, David Anthony Eden, 63, and his son David Anthony Eden Jnr, 25, were cleared of breaching immigration law.
6. The town is the centre of a black-market trade in facai, a species of alga whose name is spelt and pronounced similarly to 'get rich'.
7. Adding in black-market lending and the increasing use of IOUs to settle payments takes the total even higher.
8. A thriving black-market trade in illegal rhino horns is driving poaching to new levels in Africa, setting back recovery efforts for the endangered species.
9. Laney said reports from Pyongyang indicate that private citizens are now engaged in black-market trading of a wide variety of goods.
10. Lifting the heavy hunks of metal over the chain-link fence seemed improbable and buyers of black-market bronzes are scarce.
11. The Tooth Fairy is a burglarizing fetishist specializing in black-market ivory trade,[Sentencedict] and she must be stopped.
12. The State Council, China's cabinet, earlier this week unveiled plans to control black-market loan sharks targeting small manufacturers in distress.
13. Amounting to a parallel state, these illicit networks engage in arms trafficking, money laundering, extortion, human smuggling, black-market adoptions, and kidnapping for ransom.
14. Zhou Dewen, director of the association of small businesses in Wenzhou, a city in Zhejiang province, says black-market loans and the use of IOUs to pay suppliers are increasingly prevalent.
15. Some people brave harassment and shooting to cross the border into China to earn hard currency (many North Koreans, especially black-market traders, cross and recross into China).
16. They had names like Jump City and Sugaree, and loosely defined governements and territories that shifted constantly in the covert winds of a black-market economy.
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