scalper

noun

Definition of scalpernext
as in black marketeer

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  1. fence
  2. smuggler
  3. bootlegger
  4. trader
  5. distributor
  6. concessionaire
  7. merchant
  8. auctioneer
Noun
  • Some reportedly had to scale fences and break through barricades to enter the building and participate in the vote.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • As The Athletic outlined, there is even a bizarre plot behind turnstiles 42 and 43 of the East Stand, bought privately for £180,000, which temporarily housed a metal container and a fence leading nowhere.
    Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of fence
Noun
  • From Mexico: She and her daughter were locked without food in a hotel room for a day, where smugglers were demanding an additional thousand dollars before the two of them would be allowed to continue to the border.
    Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The 50-year-old is the latest to be sentenced in a network of human remains smugglers that stretched from the morgue of the Harvard University Medical School to an Arkansas mortuary.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of smuggler
Noun
  • This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of bootlegger
Noun
  • Since September, traders have dialed back their expectations for rate cuts from the Federal Reserve, and Donald Trump won the presidential election with a platform that calls for higher tariffs across the board.
    Jesse Pound, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Friday’s jobs report means traders see it as a near certainty that the Fed will not cut interest rates at its next meeting later this month.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of trader
Noun
  • Di Marco and Schottenstein are selecting top-tier distributors around the world, bowing at Antonioli, D’Aniello, Dell’Oglio, Nugnes, Biffi, Morini, and Leam in Italy.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Total bundled pay-TV subscribers (minus the virtual multi-video distributors, such as DirecTV Stream) is now 48.18 million.
    Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of distributor
Noun
  • The hosts close by talking about Levy, one of the largest concessionaires in U.S. sports, joining the Elevate cap table.
    Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The concessionaire also runs a canteen and gift shop selling lunch items like burgers, meatball subs, hot dogs, ice creams, and smoothies.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of concessionaire
Noun
  • During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Further afield, a merchant vessel found off of Israel’s coast, about 5,900 feet beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, made headlines as the oldest deep-sea shipwreck identified to date.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of merchant
Noun
  • Trump has tapped Billy Long, a former professional auctioneer who represented Missouri's 7th Congressional District from 2011 to 2023, as the next head of the IRS.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Long is a former auctioneer and has worked as a business and tax adviser since leaving Congress in 2022.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of auctioneer
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