OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 57530

black marketeer

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Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
He got in on the postwar reconstruction of crime, along lines borrowed from gangland and Communism. He probably set out as a currency black marketeer, working through Switzerland.
There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddlers, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.
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