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black-marketeer

black-marketeer is the alternative form of black marketeer.

Meaning of black marketeer

Noun

black marketeer (plural black marketeers)

  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...
    Synonyms:
    spiv, scalper

Forms of black-marketeer

pluralblack-marketeers

Questions about black-marketeer

What is black-marketeer the alternative form of?
Black-marketeer is the alternative form of black marketeer.

Words near black-marketeer in the dictionary

  1. black-letter days
  2. black-letter law
  3. black-lipped pika
  4. black-lipped pikas
  5. black-market
  6. black-marketeer
  7. black-marketeers
  8. black-marketing
  9. black-mouthed
  10. black-naped oriole
  11. black-naped orioles

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