black marketer

variants or black marketeer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black marketer
Noun
  • The 24 Hours of Le Mans race is nearly halfway through, and fans are late-night snacking, snoozing in their sleeping bags, or pressed up against the fence to watch the cars zip by.
    Kristin Shaw, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025
  • There are likely some teams on the fence, like the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox, who would trade expiring veterans for a pitcher like Miller.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Smuggling recipe substitutions News reports and analysis show that smugglers chose a range of fruits and vegetables to move drugs.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 July 2025
  • Most of these smugglers charge around $5,000 and offer a trip from an airport in Montreal or Toronto to a remote part of the border.
    Kristin Tate, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Her mother’s parents, the Pattis (her first name is her mother’s maiden name), were immigrant bootleggers; their sewing room had removable floorboards to hide whiskey.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • However, when a bootlegger is seen as simply trying to ride others’ success in a self-serving manner, community support quickly wanes, and job opportunities for the bootlegger can even dry out.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Nearly a million of that was raised during the first 10 minutes of the show when an auctioneer asked if anyone in the audience wanted to donate $100,000.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Here the auctioneer begins with a sky-high price that nobody would pay and gradually lowers it until one person jumps in to buy on the spot.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Some exporters that used to produce goods in China have shifted operations to Vietnam to take advantage of lower tariffs on that country's exports.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 July 2025
  • For the three months ended June 30, Boeing handed over 150 airplanes, its best second quarter since 2018, before two crashes of Max planes five months apart grounded the jets and sparked a multiyear crisis at the top U.S. exporter.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • His career spans senior roles in London and Los Angeles within broadcasters, production companies and distributors, including positions at BBC Studios, Shine International and RDF.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 July 2025
  • Recall is a voluntary action that takes place because manufacturers and distributors carry out their responsibility to protect the public health and well-being from products that present a risk of injury or gross deception or are otherwise defective.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Shoppers flock to the heart of Los Angeles’ Fashion District to see what’s on sale and get the latest styles from wholesalers and entrepreneurs, whose colorful goods spread out from the squat, industrial-looking stores.
    Norma Galeana, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
  • And keep in mind that more than 70% of the products that wholesalers and retailers sell on Amazon are produced in China.
    Oyku Ilgar, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Okakura was born in Yokohama in 1863 to a silk merchant family of samurai origins.
    Waiyee Loh, JSTOR Daily, 2 July 2025
  • According to a Bloomberg report, the Japanese gaming icon noticed that third-party merchants on Amazon were offering Switch games for sale in the U.S. at prices that undercut Nintendo’s advertised rates.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 1 July 2025
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“Black marketer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20marketer. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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