Meanings
plural black marketeers · alternative black-marketeer
- 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 3, page 2081 more example
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 & antonyms
Translations
Czech šmelinář
- šmelinářtrader on the black market
Danish sortbørshandler
- sortbørshandlertrader on the black market
French trafiquant, trafiquante
- trafiquanttrader on the black market
- trafiquantetrader on the black market
German Schieber, Schieberin
- Schiebertrader on the black market
- Schieberintrader on the black market
- Schwarzmarkthändlertrader on the black market
- Schwarzmarkthändlerintrader on the black market
Greek μαυραγορίτης
- μαυραγορίτης (mavragorítis)trader on the black market
Indonesian catut
- catuttrader on the black market
Slovak šmelinár
- šmelinártrader on the black market
Spanish estraperlista
- estraperlistatrader on the black market
Swahili mlanguzi
- mlanguzitrader on the black market
Turkish karaborsacı
- karaborsacıtrader on the black market
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