NOUN
- an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls
- people who engage in illicit trade
VERB
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
How To Use black market In A Sentence
- The soup du jour, the boeuf à la mode, and fruits de saison were all made from black market Army rations the cooks had doctored. Wild Bill Donovan
- `Just don't sell my warrant card on the black market, Larry. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.
- They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market. Inside New York City's Fishy Black Market
- She would recount how it was possible to buy anything - from meat, chocolate, cigarettes and the obligatory ‘nylons’ - from the spivs and black market racketeers.
- I used to be a dealer on the black market.
- Items like bread, milk and meat were either unavailable or could be obtained only on the black market.
- You could buy anything you needed on the black market.
- There was a thriving black market in foreign currency.
- There is a significant black market in both real and counterfeit human growth hormone promoted to sportspeople and fitness people.