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black-market
 
Adjective black-market has 1 sense
  1. 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
  1. black market - people who engage in illicit trade
    --1 is a kind of market
    --1 has member: black marketeer
    Derived form: verb black market1
  2. 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
  1. 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
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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