BOOTLEGGING Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

bootlegging

verb

present participle of bootleg

as in smuggling

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The Civil Guard said the operation with Ecuador’s National Police, which was overseen by Europol, targeted a ring that was financed by investors in Dubai and was smuggling drugs from South America into Spain in shipping containers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
On July 20, the Department of Justice announced that three Mexican men pleaded guilty to smuggling hundreds of people south from Canada into New York, then transferring them to the Midwest.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Definition of smuggling

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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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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

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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

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To avoid this, sow dwarf crepe myrtles at least 4 to 6 feet apart, space standard-sized trees at least 8 feet from each other, and keep crepe myrtles of any size at least 3 feet away from fencing.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026
For years, when playgrounds and parks became drug hot spots, the city reacted by fencing them off, depriving families of access.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

Definition of fencing

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