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black marketeering en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
    • For several months he made a hand-to-mouth living from such petty thieving and black marketeering as was possible. 2013, Richard Flanagan, chapter 2, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Chatto & Windus, published 2014:
    • They built themselves, to the north of Tel Aviv, a driver’s quarter with some of the handsomest houses in Israel—and it was impossible to do this without a good deal of black-marketeering in building material. 1953, Maurice Samuel, chapter 11, in Level Sunlight, New York: Knopf, page 176:

Deriveds

blacketeering