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black-market

ADJECTIVE
  1. distributed or sold illicitly
    the black economy pays no taxes

How To Use black-market In A Sentence

  • These black-market suede bootee leave aspect unbelievable on you with everything in your closet. Warning: Slant-Eye Alert
  • The gang also winds up in Paris, chasing a black-market baby, and London, where a thrill-seeking deb is held captive on a gambling yacht. Rip Kirby » Comics Worth Reading
  • Most of the trading was done under the counter, through some form of black-market barter. WALL GAMES
  • Much of the funding came through a black-market banking system called hawala, which is common throughout the Middle East and South Asia. The Hidden Finances of Insurgency | ATTACKERMAN
  • While he adapts himself to life in the slums, he also finds out there is money to be made in black-marketing false passports, pushing drugs and doing countless other small jobs.
  • What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny; a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; and a powerful black-market occultist desperate to put his own claim to centuries-old blood money. Rogue Angel: Destiny
  • For all her flightiness, there was seemingly nothing she could not get done by sleight of hand or obtain, if occasionally at shocking black-market prices. A Covert Affair
  • This sort of black-market labour is now widespread in meatpacking, construction and garment manufacture.
  • Some people brave harassment and shooting to cross the border into China to earn hard currency (many North Koreans, especially black-market traders, cross and recross into China).
  • It is a potent time-release medication for relief of moderate to severe pain, known as hillbilly heroin because of black-market popularity in some rural areas.
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