black marketeering

English

Noun

black marketeering (uncountable)

  1. The practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
    • 1953, Maurice Samuel, Level Sunlight, New York: Knopf, Chapter 11, p. 176,
      They built themselves, to the north of Tel Aviv, a driver’s quarter with some of the handsomest houses in Israel—and it was impossible to do this without a good deal of black-marketeering in building material.
    • 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Chatto & Windus, 2014, Chapter 2,
      For several months he made a hand-to-mouth living from such petty thieving and black marketeering as was possible.
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