black-marketeer

[ blak-mahr-ki-teer ]

verb (used without object)

1. to sell articles in the black market.

Other Words From

• black marketeer black marketer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of black-marketeer¹

First recorded in 1940–45; black market + -eer

Example Sentences

But he had plenty of good to say about the villainous, “picture-making performance” of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the extremely dangerous black marketeer Owen Davian.

From Los Angeles Times

Or he has shape-shifted into Orson Welles’s Harry Lime — the oily, amoral black marketeer at the center of the 1949 film noir “The Third Man.”

From Washington Post

Already Turkey has the makings of a bomb program: uranium deposits and research reactors — and mysterious ties to the nuclear world’s most famous black marketeer, Abdul Qadeer Khan of Pakistan.

From Seattle Times

Shields surrounds the Baron with fascinating people, including a black marketeer, a Chinese dwarf and the Baron’s subservient wife.

From Washington Post

That theme played out in Moscow, where Oleg and Ruslan’s efforts to clean up the grocery trade were stymied by the black marketeer Dmitri’s unwillingness to out the powerful people he serves.

From New York Times

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