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Synonyms for black market
black mar·ket
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Princeton's WordNet
black marketnoun
people who engage in illicit trade
Antonyms:
legalblack marketadjective
an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls
Antonyms:
legalbootleg, 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, mordantAntonyms:
legalrun, 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, meltAntonyms:
legal
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#123 | go | |
#125 | work | |
#271 | black | |
#342 | guide | |
#428 | course | |
#516 | play | |
#605 | range | |
#672 | run | |
#853 | function | |
#1142 | move | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1293 | feed | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1581 | race | |
#1640 | dark | |
#1767 | flow | |
#2171 | campaign | |
#2412 | carry | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3943 | operate | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4532 | extend | |
#4855 | tend | |
#4878 | hunt | |
#6859 | execute | |
#8192 | fatal | |
#8525 | lean | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9460 | ladder | |
#10417 | scat | |
#12318 | lam | |
#13436 | melt | |
#14856 | grim | |
#17577 | bleed | |
#17822 | prevail | |
#17899 | endure | |
#18539 | ply | |
#18561 | persist | |
#19559 | sinister | |
#19709 | bunk | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#25042 | bootleg | |
#27916 | incline | |
#29867 | shameful | |
#34408 | consort | |
#34766 | blackened | |
#37457 | unravel | |
#41643 | contraband | |
#42259 | fateful | |
#45257 | disgraceful | |
#45349 | smuggled | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#121753 | ignominious | |
#127931 | calamitous | |
#140999 | smutty | |
#157749 | inglorious | |
#285694 | opprobrious |
How to use black market in a sentence?
Their goal is to sell these antiquities on the global black market.
In the past they have accused us bakers of stealing and working in the black market for flour.
Detectives also learned that students were attempting to learn how to construct pipe bombs and how to purchase firearms on the black market.
It's ridiculous, it's just going to promote more black market sales.
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.
Translations for black market
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- سوق سوداءArabic
- чорны рынакBelarusian
- mercat negreCatalan, Valencian
- černý trhCzech
- SchwarzmarktGerman
- μαύρη αγοράGreek
- mercado negroSpanish
- musta pörssi, harmaa talousFinnish
- économie souterraine, marché noirFrench
- שוק שחורHebrew
- feketepiacHungarian
- սեւ շուկաArmenian
- 闇市, 闇市場Japanese
- 암시장Korean
- juodoji rinkaLithuanian
- melnais tirgusLatvian
- хар захMongolian
- czarny rynekPolish
- mercado negroPortuguese
- piață neagrăRomanian
- чёрный рынокRussian
- svartabörshaj, svart börs, svart marknadSwedish
- ตลาดมืดThai
- чорний ринокUkrainian
- chợ đenVietnamese
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