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. Sturges Karban:

   Demand is there for cannabis and it is ever increasing, there are new adopters coming on line and a lot of product innovation that you had never seen in the black market.

2. Natalia Broniarczyk:

   This is a politically and ideologically motivated decision not based on the concern for women' heath and safety, in all countries that curb access to contraception and legal and safe abortion, the black market grows.

3. Derek Abbott:

   Perhaps he was a World War Two black market trader or something like that. And that can explain a number of things. For example, why people possibly didn't come forward to identify him. Because, you know, if he's in with a group of people that are doing something a bit dodgy, they wouldn't want any light shone on their activities, for the clothes, perhaps they were second hand, and in those days you tended to clip off the labels because quite often people wrote on those manufacturers' labels in ink to indicate their name or something.

4. Hamdy Eid:

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

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.