Black Market Definition

blăkmärkĭt
black-markets
noun
The illegal business of buying or selling currency or goods banned by a government or subject to governmental control, such as price controls or rationing.
American Heritage
A place or system for selling goods illegally, as in violation of rationing.
Webster's New World
A place where such illegal business is carried on.
American Heritage

Trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls.

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The people who engage in such trade (considered as a group), or that sector of the economy.

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verb
To trade (something) in the black market.
American Heritage
(intransitive) To participate in a black market.
He black-marketed as a sideline.
Wiktionary
To sell in a black market.
He made his living black-marketing goods intended only for tourists.
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adjective

Traded on the black market.

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Other Word Forms of Black Market

Noun

Singular:
black market
Plural:
black-markets

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