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black market

NOUN
  1. an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls
  2. people who engage in illicit trade
VERB
  1. 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.
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