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. 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.

2. Hamdy Eid:

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

3. Andrej Babis:

   We will not support some black market and I cannot imagine the state would pay up front to some company where this person called Natalya is signing.

4. Jan Vurbs:

   People who stage attacks do not use legally held weapons, they use black market ones, primarily from the Balkans, we have to meet a number of rules on storing weapons, safe boxes, every weapon is registered and police know exactly what we have at home.

5. Martin Landry:

   We think these new product forms are going to accelerate the shift away from black market into the legal market.

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