black-marketing

verb

present participle of black-market
as in smuggling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black-marketing
  1. smuggling
  2. bargaining
  3. fencing
  4. transacting
  5. purchasing
  6. merchandising
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  • Jester called his mother after she was caught smuggling the fentanyl.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Rum has always been good at fantasy, conjuring sunshine in a bad bar, smuggling a little heat in the cold, and making the most sensible drinker briefly vulnerable to the pull of a paper umbrella.
    — Lela London, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of smuggling
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  • This comes several days after Stanford football players created a campus chapter of the College Football Players Association, with the goal of collectively bargaining with the ACC.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 2 Aug. 2026
  • No deployment date has been set for Hyundai’s Korean plants at all, so the union is bargaining pre-emptively, trying to lock in protections before the humanoid robots show up rather than after.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of bargaining
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  • The developer proposed measures to reduce disruptions on the adjacent school, including fencing and screening, dust and noise controls, moving some construction activity away from the school and using off-site parking for construction workers.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The financing facilities will be a boon for startups and mature companies alike — but will also likely fuel concerns from some industry participants that Nvidia is fencing its customers into its own ecosystem.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of fencing
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  • An agent who has paid for exclusive rights to a ZIP code has a direct financial interest in the homeowners in that territory transacting.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Kalshi Trading—and any other principal trading firm transacting on an affiliated exchange—would be forced to only engage with markets by quoting both sides.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of transacting
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  • Institutional credit, insurance capital and private capital would support hyperscalers, frontier AI labs and companies building data centers and purchasing Nvidia chips.
    — , CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
  • From managing huge inventory demands to purchasing hundreds of computers at once, scaling a business comes with a massive learning curve.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of purchasing
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  • The president has also profited from merchandising deals and high-dollar political and official events at his properties, significantly increasing his net worth since returning to power.
    — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 17 July 2026
  • For Spisak, the reports weren’t replacing merchandising judgment.
    — Angela Chan-Danisi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of merchandising
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“Black-marketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black-marketing. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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