black marketer

noun

variants or black marketeer
Definition of black marketernext
as in fence

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black marketer
  1. fence
  2. smuggler
  3. bootlegger
  4. auctioneer
  5. exporter
  6. distributor
  7. wholesaler
  8. merchant
Noun
  • This colossus is surrounded by a corroded tin fence held up with bits of scrap wood.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Repair and repaint bird houses, landscape furniture and fences.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of fence
Noun
  • Authorities believe this is a new route that smugglers have established in the Pacific Ocean.
    Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Barcelona and Napoli look to take last chance Jordan kills 5 drug smugglers on the Syrian border.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of smuggler
Noun
  • In this modern fairy tale, McCullers creates the perfect love triangle: Miss Amelia the bootlegger, her ex-convict ex-husband, and the trickster Cousin Lymon.
    The Week US, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Spikes in methanol poisonings are common in Iran, where ordinary alcohol can’t be sold or consumed and bootleggers often use industrial methanol to produce homemade alcoholic drinks instead.
    ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of bootlegger
Noun
  • Cambridge professor Frank Kelly and I have developed a combinatorial auction procedure called PAUSE (Progressive Adaptive User Selection Environment), where the auctioneer never faces the winner determination problem.
    London School of Economics, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The standard approach is to have bidders submit all their bids — including package bids — to the auctioneer, who then attempts to piece them together and accept those bids that together maximize auction revenue.
    London School of Economics, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of auctioneer
Noun
  • In October, the government introduced a policy requiring exporters to repatriate 25 percent of their foreign exchange revenue instead of 50 percent.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
  • California exporters learned to diversify their markets.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of exporter
Noun
  • The continent’s fragmented structure — with European movies being released at different times in different countries, often by different distributors with different marketing strategies — is not fit for purpose in a digital world where borders don’t exist.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In 2014, Comcast was the largest pay-TV distributor with 22.6 million video subscribers.
    Brad Adgate, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of distributor
Noun
  • Together, almost 200 lawsuits allege that everyone from cattlemen to meat wholesalers and distributors to end users like McDonald’s have lost billions of dollars because they were either forced to pay too much for beef or were paid too little for their cattle.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Some restaurateurs and chefs use suppliers or wholesalers, but there’s sometimes not enough to go around.
    Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of wholesaler
Noun
  • Many investments were backed by the industry’s wealthy merchants, including the Galerie des Champs-Elysées shopping arcade.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The number of companies exceeding RMB 100 million in sales increased by over 400% YoY, while more than 17,000 merchants saw their order volumes increase fivefold compared to 2023’s event.
    Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of merchant
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