"black marketeer" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: black marketeers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} black marketeer (plural black marketeers)
  1. Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market. Synonyms: spiv [UK, dated], scalper Related terms: black marketeering Translations (trader on the black market): မှောင်ခို (hmaunghkui) (Burmese), sortbørshandler (Danish), trafiquant [masculine] (French), trafiquante [feminine] (French), Schieber [masculine] (German), Schieberin [feminine] (German), μαυραγορίτης (mavragorítis) [masculine] (Greek), catut (Indonesian), estraperlista (Spanish), mlanguzi (Swahili), karaborsacı (Turkish)

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