black market
black market noun: trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls.
Noun
black market (plural black markets)
- Trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls.
- Peace and order will not be tolerated. Start saving your cash for the black market, folks, you're gonna need it.2004, George Carlin, “THE FANATICS WILL WIN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 135
- In District 12, a dirt-poor coal-mining community that looks like a Dorothea Lange photograph, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) quietly rebels against the system by hunting game in a forbidden area with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and trading it on the black market.2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club
- The people who engage in such trade, or that sector of the economy.
- associational black market
black market meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
black market in Hindi
- trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
- काला बाज़ार kālā bāzār, चोर बाज़ार cor bāzār
black market in Tamil
- trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
- கருப்பு சந்தை karuppu cantai
black market in Urdu
- trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
- کالا بازار kālā bāzār, چور بازار cor bāzār
black market in Bengali
- trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
- কালোবাজার kalōbajar
More languagesFewer languages
- black market in Kannada
- ಕಾಳಸಂತೆ, ಕಳ್ಳಸಂತೆ, ಕಳ್ಳಪೇಟೆ, ಕಪ್ಪು ವ್ಯಾಪಾರ
- black market in Gujarati
- કાળીબજાર kāḷībjār
- black market in Assamese
- চোৰাং বজাৰ süraṅ bozar
- black market in Pashto
- تور بازار tor bāzār
- black market in Arabic
- سُوق سَوْدَاء sūq sawdāʔ
- black market in Malay
- pasaran gelap
- black market in Indonesian
- pasar gelap
- black market in Persian
- بازارِ سِیاه bâzâr-e siyâh
- black market in Thai
- ตลาดมืด dtà-làat-mʉ̂ʉt
- black market in Vietnamese
- chợ đen
- black market in Myanmar
- မှောင်ခိုဈေး hmaunghkuijhe:
Forms of black market
| plural | black markets |
|---|---|
| alternative attributive | black-market |
Origin of black market
Ca. 1930, probably a calque of German Schwarzmarkt, which is attested from the 1910s. Compare Schwärzer (“smuggler”, 18th c.).
Words formed from black market
Questions about black market
- What does black market mean?
- Black market means trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls.
- What is black market in Hindi?
- Black market in Hindi is काला बाज़ार (kālā bāzār), चोर बाज़ार (cor bāzār). See Black market meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is black market?
- Black market is a noun.
- What is the plural of black market?
- The plural of black market is black markets.
Words near black market in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: black market (page history and authors); black market (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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