black market
Noun

black market (plural black markets)

  1. trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
      In District 12, a dirt-poor coal-mining community that looks like a Dorothea Lange photograph, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) quietly rebels against the system by hunting game in a forbidden area with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and trading it on the black market.
  2. the people who engage in such trade (considered as a group), or that sector of the economy
Translations Translations
  • German: Schwarzmarkt
  • Portuguese: mercado negro
  • Russian: чёрный ры́нок



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