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1. People who engage in illicit trade
    
2. An illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls

1. (crime) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
   - run

1. Distributed or sold illicitly
   "the black-market economy pays no taxes";
   - bootleg, black, contraband, smuggled

Derived forms: black markets

See also: illegal

Type of: market, market place, marketplace, merchandise, merchandize, trade

Encyclopedia: Black market