black market

3 definitions found

black market - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  black market \black market\ n.
     1. the illicit buying and selling of goods, in violation of
        price controls, rationing, tax laws, prohibition of sale,
        etc.
        [PJC]
  
     2. a place where such illegal commerce is conducted, or the
        entire system of such illicit commerce considered as a
        whole; as, the black market accounts for twenty percent of
        the Ukrainian economy.
        [PJC]

black market - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  black market
      n 1: people who engage in illicit trade
      2: an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and
         sold in violation of rationing or controls
      v 1: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: run,
           black market]

black market - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "black market":
     Cosa Nostra, Mafia, actionable, against the law, anarchic,
     anarchistic, anomic, black-marketeer, bootleg, bootlegging,
     chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, felonious,
     fence, flawed, gambling, gray market, illegal, illegal commerce,
     illegal operations, illegitimate, illegitimate business, illicit,
     illicit business, impermissible, irregular, justiciable, lawless,
     loan-sharking, moonshine, moonshining, narcotics traffic,
     nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, organized crime, outlaw,
     outlawed, prostitution, protection racket, punishable, push,
     racket, shady dealings, shove, the rackets, the syndicate,
     traffic in women, triable, unallowed, unauthorized,
     unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful,
     unofficial, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usury,
     white slavery, wrongful