black marketer

noun

variants or black marketeer
Definition of black marketernext
as in fence

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black marketer
  1. fence
  2. smuggler
  3. bootlegger
  4. auctioneer
  5. exporter
  6. distributor
  7. wholesaler
  8. merchant
Noun
  • The man ran northwest and jumped fences, witnesses told police.
    Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Just past his backyard fence, gray billows of smoke filled the sky above the ridgeline and flames could be seen chewing through sagebrush just a couple miles away.
    Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
Definition of fence
Noun
  • Jordanian troops opened fire, killing twenty-seven smugglers and wounding several others.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Then Egyptian smugglers take them to the city of Aswan.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of smuggler
Noun
  • Spikes in methanol poisonings are common in Iran, where ordinary alcohol can’t be sold or consumed and bootleggers often use industrial methanol to produce homemade alcoholic drinks instead.
    ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The dynamic echoed commercial theater’s current love affair with missing-the-point adaptations of The Great Gatsby, a Faust story of its own with a bootlegger as the Devil.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
Definition of bootlegger
Noun
  • Cambridge professor Frank Kelly and I have developed a combinatorial auction procedure called PAUSE (Progressive Adaptive User Selection Environment), where the auctioneer never faces the winner determination problem.
    London School of Economics, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The standard approach is to have bidders submit all their bids — including package bids — to the auctioneer, who then attempts to piece them together and accept those bids that together maximize auction revenue.
    London School of Economics, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of auctioneer
Noun
  • Chinese and global exporters are set to be big winners here, as would defensives over cyclicals.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In response, scrutiny is rightly intensifying on the issue of business complicity in crimes against humanity, as companies across sectors—from arms exporters to tech giants—continue to turn profits amid unfathomable violence against civilians.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of exporter
Noun
  • The filmmakers hope that the film will find a permanent home with a traditional distributor after the election.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The film’s distributor previously announced the Jackson biopic would hit theaters on April 18, 2025.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of distributor
Noun
  • During an earnings call Wednesday, Eli Lilly instead blamed it on drug wholesalers cutting inventory of Zepbound and Mounjaro.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In 1900, the area was home to a vast open-air market that eventually developed the neighborhood into rows of shops and wholesalers, then started shrinking.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of wholesaler
Noun
  • The city and Village merchants cannot thank them enough.
    Yan Zhao, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Among the first merchants offering Affirm as a payment method in the U.K. are Alternative Airlines, the flight booking website, and payments processing firm Fexco.
    Ryan Browne, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of merchant
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