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black marketeers

black marketeers is the plural 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

Questions about black marketeers

What is black marketeers the plural of?
Black marketeers is the plural of black marketeer.

Words near black marketeers in the dictionary

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

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