black market
See also: black-market
English
Alternative forms
- black-market (attributive use)
Noun
black market (plural black markets)
- trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
- In District 12, a dirt-poor coal-mining community that looks like a Dorothea Lange photograph, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) quietly rebels against the system by hunting game in a forbidden area with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and trading it on the black market.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
- the people who engage in such trade (considered as a group), or that sector of the economy
Derived terms
Translations
trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
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people who engage in such trade or that sector of the economy
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