Synonyms for black market
black mar·ket

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1. black marketnoun

   people who engage in illicit trade

   Antonyms:
   legal

2. black marketadjective

   an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls

   Antonyms:
   legal

3. bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggledverb

   distributed or sold illicitly

   "the black economy pays no taxes"

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, blackened, inglorious, grim, calamitous, fatal, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

   Antonyms:
   legal

4. run, black marketverb

   deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, run for, persist, incline, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, ladder, ply, melt

   Antonyms:
   legal

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1. • Crime
   • Market
   • Trade

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1. Leon Lerman:

   From what our researchers have seen, there is an elaborate marketplace on the Dark Web where the stolen data is distributed through channels to end users, the hackers, who at the top of the black market value chain, sell raw patient data in bulk.

2. Mark Turnage:

   The darknet is that part of the Internet where most people don’t go — for a reason, it is the black market of the Internet — where stolen information is bought and sold. It is where illegal transactions take place.

3. James Jacobs:

   I’m skeptical on the ability to clamp down on guns. That horse has already left the stable, most people who are highly dangerous don’t go to a legal gun dealer. They go on the internet or the black market or just get someone else to buy a gun for them.

4. Natalia Broniarczyk:

   This is a politically and ideologically motivated decision not based on the concern for women' heath and safety, in all countries that curb access to contraception and legal and safe abortion, the black market grows.

5. Michael Rubin:

   Whenever theres a discrepancy between official rates and black market rates, corruption thrives. By manipulating foreign exchange, the Iranian central bank can divert the difference in rates to fund other projects, put another way, if foreign companies and correspondent banks pay the official exchange rate in their business with Iran, they will be paying six times as much in dollars. Literally, that means more than 83 percent could go to the Revolutionary Guards, while only 17 percent goes to legitimate purposes.