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black marketeer en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
   • There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddlers, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes. 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 208:
   • He got in on the postwar reconstruction of crime, along lines borrowed from gangland and Communism. He probably set out as a currency black marketeer, working through Switzerland. 1960, Poul Anderson, chapter 18, in Murder in Black Letter, New York: Macmillan, page 153:

Forms

Deriveds

blacketeer

Relateds

black marketeering

Synonyms

spiv · scalper

Translations (16)

fr trafiquante (trader on the black market) · es estraperlista (trader on the black market) · sk šmelinár (trader on the black market) · cs šmelinář (trader on the black market) · sw mlanguzi (trader on the black market) · id catut (trader on the black market) · de Schieberin (trader on the black market) · da sortbørshandler (trader on the black market) · de Schieber (trader on the black market) · el μαυραγορίτης (trader on the black market) · fr trafiquant (trader on the black market) · sq përshitës (trader on the black market) · de Schwarzmarkthändlerin (trader on the black market) · de Schwarzmarkthändler (trader on the black market) · my မှောင်ခို (trader on the black market) · tr karaborsacı (trader on the black market)