black market

English

Alternative forms

• black-market (attributive use)

Noun

black market (plural black markets)

1. trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     In District 12, a dirt-poor coal-mining community that looks like a Dorothea Lange photograph, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) quietly rebels against the system by hunting game in a forbidden area with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and trading it on the black market.

2. the people who engage in such trade (considered as a group), or that sector of the economy

See also

• Black market on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls

• Arabic: سوق سوداء (ar) (sūq sawdāʾ) f
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: чорны рынак (be) (čórny rýnak) m
• Catalan: mercat negre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑市 (cmn) (hēishì)

• Czech: černý trh (cs) m
• Finnish: musta pörssi (fi)
• French: marché noir (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schwarzmarkt (de) m
• Hebrew: שוק שחור (he) (shúk shakhór) m
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: feketepiac (hu)

• Japanese: 闇市 (ja) (やみいち, yamiichi), 闇市場 (ja) (やみいちば, yamiichiba)
• Korean: 암시장 (ko) (amsijang)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: czarny rynek (pl)
• Romanian: piață neagră (ro) f
• Russian: чёрный рынок (ru) (čórnyj rýnok) m
• Spanish: mercado negro (es) m
• Swedish: svart börs (sv) c, svart marknad (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: чорний ринок (uk) (čórnyj rýnok) m
• Vietnamese: chợ đen (vi)

people who engage in such trade or that sector of the economy

• Finnish: musta pörssi (fi)
• German: Schwarzmarkt (de) m

• Russian: чёрный рынок (ru) (čórnyj rýnok) m
• Swedish: svartabörshaj (sv) c