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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
black market
    n 1: people who engage in illicit trade
    2: an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and
       sold in violation of rationing or controls
    v 1: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: run,
         black market]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
black market \black market\ n.
   1. the illicit buying and selling of goods, in violation of
      price controls, rationing, tax laws, prohibition of sale,
      etc.
      [PJC]

   2. a place where such illegal commerce is conducted, or the
      entire system of such illicit commerce considered as a
      whole; as, the black market accounts for twenty percent of
      the Ukrainian economy.
      [PJC]

Thesaurus Results for black market:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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