black marketeering

noun

: the activity of buying or selling goods or commodities in the black market

… promoting an economy dominated by smuggling and black marketeering.

—Rod Nordland, Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2000

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for black marketeering

• electioneering
• reengineering
• adhering
• appearing
• careering
• cohering
• endearing
• inhering
• prehearing
• rehearing
• veneering
• bioengineering