Search Result for "black_market":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. people who engage in illicit trade;

2. an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls;


VERB (1)

1. deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor;
[syn: run, black market]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

black market \black market\ n. 1. the illicit buying and selling of goods, in violation of price controls, rationing, tax laws, prohibition of sale, etc. [PJC] 2. a place where such illegal commerce is conducted, or the entire system of such illicit commerce considered as a whole; as, the black market accounts for twenty percent of the Ukrainian economy. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

black market n 1: people who engage in illicit trade 2: an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls v 1: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: run, black market]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "black market": Cosa Nostra, Mafia, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, black-marketeer, bootleg, bootlegging, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, felonious, fence, flawed, gambling, gray market, illegal, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate, illegitimate business, illicit, illicit business, impermissible, irregular, justiciable, lawless, loan-sharking, moonshine, moonshining, narcotics traffic, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, organized crime, outlaw, outlawed, prostitution, protection racket, punishable, push, racket, shady dealings, shove, the rackets, the syndicate, traffic in women, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usury, white slavery, wrongful