Definitions for black-market

black-market black-mar·ket

Spelling: [blak-mahr-kit]
IPA: /ˈblækˈmɑr kɪt/

Black-Market is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 653 anagrams from letters in black-market (-aabcekklmrt).

Definitions for black-market

noun

  1. the illicit buying and selling of goods in violation of legal price controls, rationing, etc.
  2. a place where such activity is carried on.

verb (used with object)

  1. to sell (something) in the black market.

verb (used without object)

  1. to black-marketeer.

Origin of black-market

First recorded in 1930-35; v. use of black market

Examples for black-market

On the black-market, Iranian moneylenders peg the real exchange rate far higher, at more than 35,000 rials per dollar.

Siddiqui is suspected of dealing with $19 million worth of black-market diamonds to pay for al Qaeda attacks.

Would he mind, she wondered, carrying the package of black-market tea that she was bringing her mother?

The black-market channels which ferry ivory from poachers are often the same used for illegal arms, drugs, and trafficked labor.

On the street level, black-market banks in China never advertise their enterprise.

Word Value for black-market
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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