English
Alternative forms
Noun
black market (plural black markets )
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 .
the people who engage in such trade (considered as a group), or that sector of the economy
Derived terms
Translations
trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
Afrikaans: swartmark
Albanian: tregu i zi
Arabic: سُوق سَوْدَاء f ( sūq sawdāʔ )
Armenian: սեւ շուկա ( sew šuka )
Assamese: ক’লা বজাৰ ( köla bozar ) , চোৰাং বজাৰ ( süraṅ bozar )
Basque: merkatu beltz
Belarusian: чо́рны ры́нак m ( čórny rýnak )
Catalan: mercat negre m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 黑市 (zh) ( hēishì )
Czech: černý trh m
Danish: sort marked n
Dutch: zwarte markt
Esperanto: nigra merkato
Finnish: musta pörssi , harmaa talous
French: marché noir (fr) m , économie souterraine (fr)
Georgian: შავი მარკეტი ( šavi marḳeṭi )
German: Schwarzmarkt (de) m
Greek: μαύρη αγορά (el) f ( mávri agorá )
Hausa: kasuwar shunku (ha)
Hebrew: שוק שחור (he) m ( shúk shakhór )
Hindi: काला बाज़ार m ( kālā bāzār )
Hungarian: feketepiac (hu)
Indonesian: pasar gelap (id)
Irish: margadh dubh m
Japanese: 闇市 ( やみいち, yamiichi ) , 闇市場 ( やみいちば, yamiichiba )
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Kazakh: қара нарық ( qara naryq )
Korean: 암시장 ( amsijang )
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Latvian: melnais tirgus m
Lithuanian: juodoji rinka f
Malay: pasaran gelap
Mongolian: хар зах ( xar zax )
Norwegian:
Nynorsk: svartebørs
Norwegian Bokmål: svartebørs
Persian: بازار سیاه ( bâzâr-e siyâh )
Polish: czarny rynek (pl)
Portuguese: mercado negro m
Romanian: piață neagră (ro) f
Russian: чёрный ры́нок (ru) m ( čórnyj rýnok )
Rusyn: чо́рный торг m ( čórnŷj torh )
Spanish: mercado negro (es) m
Swedish: svart börs c , svart marknad (sv) c
Thai: ตลาดมืด (th) ( dtà-làat-mʉ̂ʉt )
Tibetan: ནག་ཚོང ( nag tshong )
Turkish: kara piyasa , kara borsa (tr) , yeraltı ekonomisi , kara pazar (tr)
Ukrainian: чо́рний ри́нок m ( čórnyj rýnok )
Urdu: کالا بازار m ( kālā bāzār )
Vietnamese: chợ đen
people who engage in such trade or that sector of the economy
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