black marketers

noun

variants or black marketeers
Definition of black marketersnext
plural of black marketer
as in smugglers

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  1. smugglers
  2. traffickers
  3. retailers
  4. merchants
  5. traders
Noun
  • Officials fight the flow of contraband through the arrest of smugglers and mass searches.
    Jeff Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The incentives for smugglers to sell oil to neighboring countries such as Colombia at great profit remain unchanged.
    Michael Shifter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2016
Definition of smugglers
Noun
  • The leaders of countries like Mauritius and Palau were, after all, willing traffickers in legal fictions.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Singapore’s anti-drug czar claims strict punishment serves as a deterrent to drug traffickers.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of traffickers
Noun
  • Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement The measure is strongly backed by a group of California prosecutors and large retailers, including Walmart, and aims to overhaul parts of Proposition 47, a measure approved by voters in 2014 that reduced certain drug and property crime penalties.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of retailers
Noun
  • La Salle, then in his mid-thirties, was the son of wealthy merchants.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Some merchants may have concerns that this year’s presidential election could impact shoppers, but Attentive, an SMS marketing firm, reports 59 percent of consumers said the election won’t impact their holiday shopping plans.
    Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of merchants
Noun
  • Blackboxstocks continues to operate as a financial technology and social media platform, offering real-time analytics and news for stock and options traders.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Stock futures turned higher, while traders bid up the price of government bonds.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of traders
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