Ca. 1930, probably a calque of German Schwarzmarkt Schwärzer ( “ smuggler ” , 18th c. ) .
black market plural black markets
Trade that is in violation of restrictions , rationing , or price controls .
2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club [2] In District 12, a dirt-poor coal-mining community that looks like a Dorothea Lange photograph, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) quietly rebels against the system by hunting game in a forbidden area with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and trading it on the black market .
2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say”, in The Guardian [3] →ISSN Increasing numbers of people are turning to a growing black market for food to supplement their diets as prices rocket, experts have said.
( collective ) sector of the economy .trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls
Afrikaans: swartmark
Albanian: treg i zi m tregu i zi m ( definite )
Arabic: سُوق سَوْدَاء f ( sūq sawdāʔ )
Armenian: սեւ շուկա (hy) ( sew šuka )
Assamese: চোৰাং বজাৰ ( süraṅ bozar )
Azerbaijani: qara bazar
Basque: merkatu beltz
Belarusian: чо́рны ры́нак m ( čórny rýnak )
Bengali: কালোবাজার (bn) ( kalōbajar )
Bulgarian: че́рен паза́р m ( čéren pazár )
Burmese: မှောင်ခိုဈေး ( hmaunghkuijhe: )
Carpathian Rusyn: чо́рный торг m ( čórnŷj torh )
Catalan: mercat negre (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 黑市 ( hak1 si5 )
Hokkien: 烏市 ／ 乌市 (zh-min-nan) ( o͘-chhī )
Mandarin: 黑市 (zh) ( hēishì )
Czech: černý trh m
Danish: sort marked n sortbørs (da) c sortbørshandel (da) c
Dutch: zwarte markt (nl) f
Esperanto: nigra merkato
Estonian: varimajandus
Finnish: musta pörssi (fi) , harmaa talous (fi)
French: marché noir (fr) m économie souterraine (fr) f
Galician: mercado negro (gl) m
Georgian: შავი მარკეტი ( šavi marḳeṭi )
German: Schwarzmarkt (de) m
Greek: μαύρη αγορά (el) f ( mávri agorá )
Hausa: kasuwar shunku (ha)
Hebrew: שוק שחור / שׁוּק שָׁחֹר (he) m ( shúk shakhór )
Hindi: काला बाज़ार m ( kālā bāzār ) , चोर बाज़ार m ( cor bāzār )
Hungarian: feketepiac (hu) , feketekereskedelem (hu)
Indonesian: pasar gelap (id)
Irish: margadh dubh m
Italian: mercato nero m mercato negro m
Japanese: 闇市 (ja) ( やみいち, yamiichi ) , 闇市場 ( やみいちば, yamiichiba ) , ブラック・マーケット ( burakku-māketto )
Kazakh: қара нарық ( qara naryq )
Khmer: ផ្សារងងឹត ( phsaa ngɔngɨt )
Korean: 암시장(暗市場) ( amsijang ) , 블랙마켓 ( beullaengmaket )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bazara reş (ku) f
Kyrgyz: кара базар (ky) ( kara bazar )
Lao: ຕລາດມືດ ( ta lāt mư̄t ) , ຕະຫລາດມືດ ( ta lāt mư̄t )
Latvian: melnais tirgus m
Lithuanian: juodoji rinka f
Macedonian: црн пазар m ( crn pazar )
Malay: pasaran gelap
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хар зах ( xar zax )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: svartebørs m
Nynorsk: svartebørs m
Pashto: تور بازار (ps) m ( tor bāzār )
Persian: بازارِ سِیاه ( bâzâr-e siyâh )
Polish: czarny rynek (pl) m
Portuguese: mercado negro (pt) m
Romanian: piață neagră (ro) f
Russian: чёрный ры́нок m ( čórnyj rýnok )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: црно тржиште n црна бурза f црна берза f
Roman: crno tržište n crna burza f crna berza f
Slovak: čierny trh m
Slovene: črni trg m
Spanish: mercado negro (es) m
Swedish: svart börs c svart marknad (sv) c
Tajik: бозори сиёҳ ( bozor-i siyoh )
Tatar: кара базар ( qara bazar )
Thai: ตลาดมืด (th) ( dtà-làat-mʉ̂ʉt )
Tibetan: ནག་ཚོང ( nag tshong )
Turkish: kara piyasa kara borsa (tr) , yeraltı ekonomisi kara pazar (tr)
Turkmen: gara bazar
Ukrainian: чо́рний ри́нок m ( čórnyj rýnok )
Urdu: کالا بازار m ( kālā bāzār ) , چور بازار m ( cor bāzār )
Uzbek: qora bozor
Vietnamese: chợ đen (vi)
people who engage in such trade or that sector of the economy
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