black marketeer

English

Noun

black marketeer (plural black marketeers)

1. Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, Part Three, [Chapter 1],^[1]

     There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddlers, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.

   • 1960, Poul Anderson, Murder in Black Letter, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 18, p. 153,^[2]

     He got in on the postwar reconstruction of crime, along lines borrowed from gangland and Communism. He probably set out as a currency black marketeer, working through Switzerland.

Synonyms

• (UK, dated) spiv

Related terms

• black marketeering

Translations

trader on the black market

• French: trafiquant (fr) m trafiquante (fr) f
• Greek: μαυραγορίτης (el) m (mavragorítis)
• Indonesian: catut (id)
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• Spanish: estraperlista
• Turkish: kara borsacı (tr)