Antonyms for black marketblack mar·ket

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1. black marketnoun

   people who engage in illicit trade

   Antonyms:
   legal

2. black marketadjective

   an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls

   Antonyms:
   legal

3. bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggledverb

   distributed or sold illicitly

   "the black economy pays no taxes"

   Antonyms:
   legal

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, blackened, inglorious, grim, calamitous, fatal, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

4. run, black marketverb

   deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor

   Antonyms:
   legal

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, run for, persist, incline, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, ladder, ply, melt

How to use black market in a sentence?

1. Stuart Jones:

   Their goal is to sell these antiquities on the global black market.

2. Frank White:

   He put thousands of New Englanders at risk of smoking cigarettes or going onto the black market.

3. Fitz Couhig:

   I got retailers beating me down to sell for black-market prices.

4. Leon Lerman:

   From what our researchers have seen, there is an elaborate marketplace on the Dark Web where the stolen data is distributed through channels to end users, the hackers, who at the top of the black market value chain, sell raw patient data in bulk.

5. Steve Galster:

   We know that some zoos and a lot of wildlife operators supply animals into the black market, they breed the animals, have some there to make money from tourists, and sell the extra ones.

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