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black marketeer

black marketeer noun: someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.

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...
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    spiv, scalper

black marketeer meaning in Tamil, Indonesian and Myanmar

black marketeer in Tamil

கள்ள வாணிகர்

black marketeer in Indonesian

trader on the black market
catut

black marketeer in Myanmar

trader on the black market
မှောင်ခို hmaunghkui

Synonyms of black marketeer

Forms of black marketeer

pluralblack marketeers
alternative formblack-marketeer

Words formed from black marketeer

Questions about black marketeer

What does black marketeer mean?
Black marketeer means someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
What is black marketeer in Tamil?
Black marketeer in Tamil is கள்ள வாணிகர். See Black marketeer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is black marketeer?
Black marketeer is a noun.
What is the plural of black marketeer?
The plural of black marketeer is black marketeers.

Words near black marketeer in the dictionary

  1. Black Mariah
  2. Black Mariahs
  3. Black Marias
  4. black mark
  5. black market
  6. black marketeer
  7. black marketeering
  8. black marketeers
  9. black markets
  10. black marks
  11. black marsh turtle

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