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black marketeering

black marketeering noun: the practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.

Noun

black marketeering (uncountable)

  1. The practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
    • 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
    • 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

Words formed from black marketeering

Questions about black marketeering

What does black marketeering mean?
Black marketeering means the practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
What part of speech is black marketeering?
Black marketeering is a noun.

Words near black marketeering in the dictionary

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

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