Antonyms for black-marketblack-mar·ket

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1. black marketnoun

   people who engage in illicit trade

   Antonyms:
   legal

   Synonyms:
   black market

2. black marketadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   legal

   Synonyms:
   black market

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

   distributed or sold illicitly

   "the black economy pays no taxes"

   Antonyms:
   legal

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, 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, black market, persist, incline, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, ladder, ply, melt

How to use black-market in a sentence?

1. Carmine Marceno.An:

   Detectives also learned that students were attempting to learn how to construct pipe bombs and how to purchase firearms on the black market.

2. Mark Turnage:

   The darknet is that part of the Internet where most people don’t go — for a reason, it is the black market of the Internet — where stolen information is bought and sold. It is where illegal transactions take place.

3. Hamdy Eid:

   In the past they have accused us bakers of stealing and working in the black market for flour.

4. Hindi Filmy Quote:

   Than than ki suno jhankar, ye duniya hai kala bazaar ye paisa bolta hai, ye paisa bolta hai (Listen to the jingling of the coins, This world is a black market. Money Talks, Money Talks)

5. David Merriman:

   I think the government has accepted the fact that it will take a long time to control (the black market) and that it's not just a quick fix, things are steadying, however. I think prices will remain relatively stable throughout the first half of next year.

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