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black marketeer (plural black marketeers)

  1. Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
    • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 208:
      There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddlers, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.
    • 1960, Poul Anderson, chapter 18, in Murder in Black Letter[1], New York: Macmillan, page 153:
      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.

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