black-marketeer

plural black-marketeers

1. alternativeAlternative form of black marketeer.

   And there's the breezy wise guy (George Peppard) who suddenly becomes the adored of the queen of the Antwerp black-marketeers (Melina Mercouri) and has a gay time with her.

   1963 December 20, Bosley Crowther, “Screen: The Grim Message of War”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2018

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   For now, he remains immersed in the seedy world of the black-marketeers and fraudsters of the postwar period, and their links with those publicly espousing a fairer society.

   2005 July 12, Chris Arnot, “Enemies of the fairer society”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2014

   Holman was born in 1786, the son of an Exeter apothecary, and went to sea at 12. By the age of 16, he was commanding British ships as they hunted American black-marketeers in the Atlantic.

   2006 August 13, Brian Dillon, “Travelling blind”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2016

   Social media is the main outlet for this music, though the songs are also played — along with more traditional nationalist ones — on Palestinian radio and television. Black-marketeers have rapidly burned them onto CDs that go for 10 shekels, or about $2.50, on Ramallah street corners and in stores like True Love.

   2015 October 22, Jodi Rudoren, Rami Nazzal, “Palestinian Anger in Jerusalem and West Bank Gets a Violent Soundtrack”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2015