black marketers

noun

variants or black marketeers
plural of black marketer
as in smugglers

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  1. smugglers
  2. traffickers
  3. bootleggers
  4. retailers
  5. fences
  6. distributors
  7. merchants
  8. scalpers
Noun
  • Most of the people arriving from Cuba at the height of the influx in 2022 and 2023 came in groups on makeshift vessels, not by smugglers.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The account specifies that the smugglers scuttled the ship to evade the law.
    — Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of smugglers
Noun
  • Employees have become burned out and morally conflicted as their focus has shifted from pursuing drug smugglers and human traffickers to apprehending asylum seekers in courthouses and arresting day laborers at their worksites.
    — Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The theatrics played to a large audience who had long argued that former leftist President Gustavo Petros’s policy of pursuing engagement with drug traffickers had left Colombia more vulnerable to organized crime.
    — Solly Boussidan, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of traffickers
Noun
  • But his favorite piece isn’t something fans can get from bootleggers.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Artificial intelligence developers have borrowed the word to describe boiling down a big AI model into a smaller one—and lately the biggest AI companies say that rivals have been distilling like bootleggers.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of bootleggers
Noun
  • Robin helped introduce John Frieda products to French retailers, first in Paris stores such as Colette and Le Bon Marché, then throughout France.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Cosmetics brands, retailers and AI chat platforms now invite shoppers to scan their faces or upload photos to preview a lipstick shade, a pair of glasses or a new dress.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of retailers
Noun
  • Montana's father helped build War Angel Farms' roads, fences and pastures.
    — Brian Unger, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The animals damage the range, as well as people’s fences and gardens.
    — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of fences
Noun
  • Despite the cool reception from distributors, the pair haven’t given up, and still plan on shopping their movie to either a streamer or theatrical distributor.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
  • Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.
    — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 11 Jan. 2026
Definition of distributors
Noun
  • Sometimes word clouds are big-budget supergraphics realized by design firms like Pentagram, but often they are produced cheaply and quickly by non-designers, or by anonymous Etsy merchants, or in-house at printing and signage companies.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Some enterprise merchants, such as Walmart, are even creating their own systems for agentic commerce, including authorizing third-party agents, setting spending limits, and ensuring agents can browse for and purchase products reliably.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of merchants
Noun
  • By turning a blind eye to scalpers, even giving them the tools to bypass limits and harvest tickets, Live Nation has acted as the promoter, the primary ticket seller, the artists’ manager, and the scalper.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 19 Sep. 2025
Definition of scalpers
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