black economy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Last month, Mahmood said she wanted to "shrink the black economy" and dismantle the business model of smuggling gangs.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
Yopougon has a large black economy and the local industrial estate "only offers very seasonal and fairly insecure job opportunities", Kouame explained.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Those working there report a rising number of husbands simply leaving – either to slip off into the black economy of Bangladesh beyond the Rohingya settlements, or with other women.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2018
Economists reckon that India’s black economy accounts for at least 20% of GDP.
From Economist ● Dec. 1, 2016
And I dismissed the Nation of Islam’s demand for a separate black economy in America, which I had also heard before, as willful, and even mischievous, nonsense.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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