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

A Texas Ranger helps the FBI stop a black-marketeer who deals in Army bazookas, grenades and tanks.

From Los Angeles Times

A Texas Ranger helps the FBI stop a black-marketeer who deals in Army bazookas, grenades and tanks.

From Los Angeles Times

A Texas Ranger helps the FBI stop a black-marketeer who deals in Army bazookas, grenades and tanks.

From Los Angeles Times

The arsenal that Colonel Qaddafi bequeathed to those who toppled him is a black-marketeer’s prize, and moving every which way.

From New York Times

Tahar Rahim as Younes, an Algerian black-marketeer drawn into taking sides against the Nazis in Free Men.

From The Guardian

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