n
A bandit, particularly of the type associated with Mexico
n
An outlaw or bandit, especially in Spain or Mexico.
n
trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls
n
The practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
adj
(rare) Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services.
adj
Contraband, bootleg or smuggled.
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Short for black marketeering. [The practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.]
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Alternative spelling of black market [trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls]
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An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.
n
The criminal operations of brigands.
n
(uncountable) Any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.
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Certain materials, useful to the military, that are not to be supplied by neutral powers to belligerents.
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A smuggler; a contrabandist.
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traffic in contraband goods; smuggling
n
A contrabandist in Spain, Portugal, or Latin America.
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(informal) The Iran–Contra affair.
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In the Soviet Union, the illegal trade of acquiring desirable consumer goods and currency from foreigners.
n
A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
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Alternative form of filibuster [A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.]
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Someone who sells items at flea markets; someone who flea-markets.
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Alternative spelling of grey marketeer [someone selling grey market goods or trading on the grey market]
n
someone selling grey market goods or trading on the grey market
n
(archaic) A cheapjack, or itinerant seller.
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(colloquial, in the plural, as illegals) Contraband, esp. illegal substances such as drugs.
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(slang) One who collects the money ("juice") owed to a bookmaker or a loan shark.
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(Kenya) contraband; the black market
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Alternative spelling of manstealer [A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.]
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(obsolete) A slave dealer.
n
A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
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A slave-dealer; someone who seizes other persons to hold those persons as slave or sell them into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
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(historical) An officer in London who seized the goods of foreigners sold elsewhere than in the public market.
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The illegal transportation of a person or persons across an international border; human smuggling.
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Alternative form of slave trader [A trader who buys and sells slaves.]
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One who buys and sells people as slaves.
v
(South Africa, historical) To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
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An act of something being smuggled.
n
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
adv
Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).
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