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Black market   /blæk mˈɑrkət/   Listen
noun
black market  n.  
1.
The illicit buying and selling of goods, in violation of price controls, rationing, tax laws, prohibition of sale, etc.
2.
A place where such illegal commerce is conducted, or the entire system of such illicit commerce considered as a whole; as, the black market accounts for twenty percent of the Ukrainian economy.





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... took up a paper. "I have here a report from a journalist of the West who but recently returned from a tour of our country. She reports, with some indignation, that the only available eyebrow pencils were to be found on the black market, were of French import, and cost a thousand dinars apiece. She contends that Transbalkanian women are indignant at ...
— Expediter • Dallas McCord Reynolds


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