Synonyms for black market
black 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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   legal

4. run, black marketverb

   deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor

   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

   Antonyms:
   legal

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1. • Crime
   • Market
   • Trade

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1. Andy Weber:

   Now that there's actually a market where one can buy large quantities of fentanyl analogues, it eliminates the capability gap and it makes it accessible to terrorist groups, it's a game changer. In my lifetime I've never seen a weapon of mass destruction that is part of an existing black market.

2. Jaret Davey:

   Oftentimes with really beautiful animals like the snowy owl, people will get them on a black market and then illegally keep them as pets.

3. Michael Rubin:

   Whenever theres a discrepancy between official rates and black market rates, corruption thrives. By manipulating foreign exchange, the Iranian central bank can divert the difference in rates to fund other projects, put another way, if foreign companies and correspondent banks pay the official exchange rate in their business with Iran, they will be paying six times as much in dollars. Literally, that means more than 83 percent could go to the Revolutionary Guards, while only 17 percent goes to legitimate purposes.

4. Oren Gutfeld:

   In the last few years we noticed new pieces of scrolls and parchments arrive on the black market, it drove us to return to the caves.

5. Win Lwin:

   They call it the black market but it's the real market, it's very difficult for the banks to follow the rules.