DictionaryAI

black-market

Short definition from Wiktionary

Adjective

  1. Traded on the black market.
  2. Contraband, bootleg or smuggled.

Verb

  1. To participate in a black market.
  2. To sell in a black market.

Noun

  1. Trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls.
  2. The people who engage in such trade, or that sector of the economy.

We haven’t written up black-market yet: Simple and Standard meanings, examples and a quiz.