BLACK MARKET Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in trade

a system through which things are bought and sold illegally The black market in prescription drugs is thriving. They unloaded the stolen goods on the black market.

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black-market

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verb

as in to smuggle

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Noun

Some fear the new laws will create a black market for vapes, much like one that exists for cigarettes in Australia, which imposes some of the highest tobacco taxes in the world. —

Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 1 July 2024 Street fentanyl kills more than 70,000 Americans a year and generates billions of dollars annually in black market profits. —

Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 20 June 2024

Verb

His grandfather, who migrated from Tunisia to Belleville in 1956, opened the butcher shop just outside the subway station by a busy street corner where young men now hawk black-market cartons of cigarettes for cash. —

Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024 Beamer blows his money on maintaining a Hollywood life style (couples therapy, black-market weight-loss drugs, his wife’s dermatologist-cum-psychologist). —

Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for black market

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