All black-market synonyms
black-marΒ·ket
B b adj black-market
- contraband β Contraband refers to goods that are taken into or out of a country illegally.
- illicit β not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
- unauthorized β lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- pirated β a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- unwarranted β authorization, sanction, or justification.
- wrongful β unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- irregular β without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- banned β to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict: to ban nuclear weapons; The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime.
- unconstitutional β not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
- outlawed β a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- illegitimate β born of parents who are not married to each other; born out of wedlock: an illegitimate child.
- prohibited β to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- criminal β A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
- unlicensed β having no license.
- illegal β forbidden by law or statute.
- improper β not proper; not strictly belonging, applicable, correct, etc.; erroneous: He drew improper conclusions from the scant evidence.
- clandestine β Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
- furtive β taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- immoral β violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.
- adulterous β An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- bootlegged β made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- unlawful β not lawful; contrary to law; illegal.
- unofficial β a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- under-the-counter β (of merchandise) sold clandestinely.
- unsanctioned β authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- bootleg β Bootleg is used to describe something that is made secretly and sold illegally.
verb black-market
- fence β a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- relate β to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- dicker β If you say that people are dickering about something, you mean that they are arguing or disagreeing about it, often in a way that you think is foolish or unnecessary.
- trade β the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- touch β to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- peddle β to carry (small articles, goods, wares, etc.) from place to place for sale at retail; hawk.
- market β an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- deal β If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
- interact β to act one upon another.
- swap β to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
- handle β a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- negotiate β to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
- barter β If you barter goods, you exchange them for other goods, rather than selling them for money.
- network β any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
- shove β to move along by force from behind; push.
- moonshine β Informal. smuggled or illicitly distilled liquor, especially corn liquor as illicitly distilled chiefly in rural areas of the southern U.S.
- bargain β Something that is a bargain is good value for money, usually because it has been sold at a lower price than normal.
- contact β Contact involves meeting or communicating with someone, especially regularly.
- truck β a shuffling jitterbug step.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- interface β a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
noun black-market
- run β execution
- underground β beneath the surface of the ground: traveling underground by subway.
- gray market β a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.