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Adjective black-market has 1 sense

bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
Antonym: legal (indirect, via illegal)

Noun black-market has 2 senses

black market - people who engage in illicit trade
--₁ is a kind of market
--₁ has member: black marketeer
Derived form: verb black market₁
black market - an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls
--₂ is a kind of market, marketplace

Derived form: verb black market₁

Verb black-market has 1 sense

run, black market - deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
--₁ is one way to trade, merchandise

Derived forms: noun black market₁, noun black market₂
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