black-marketeer

[blak-mahr-ki-teer]

verb (used without object)

1. to sell articles in the black market.

Other Word Forms

• black marketeer noun
• black marketer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of black-marketeer¹

First recorded in 1940–45; black market + -eer

Example Sentences

A Texas Ranger helps the FBI stop a black-marketeer who deals in Army bazookas, grenades and tanks.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

The arsenal that Colonel Qaddafi bequeathed to those who toppled him is a black-marketeer’s prize, and moving every which way.

Read more on New York Times

Tahar Rahim as Younes, an Algerian black-marketeer drawn into taking sides against the Nazis in Free Men.

Read more on The Guardian

The composite, Younes, is a young Algerian black-marketeer, an opportunist declaring himself apolitical.

Read more on The Guardian

She describes with equal candour a child cracking the skin of icy puddles with a wooden-soled boot and a woman enduring sex with a black-marketeer for the sake of safety.

Read more on The Guardian

Related Words

• blackmailer www.thesaurus.com
• criminal 
• crook 
• culprit 
• delinquent 
• felon 
• fugitive 
• gangster 
• hoodlum 
• hooligan 
• mobster 
• offender 
• racketeer 
• scofflaw