black marketeer

English

Noun

black marketeer (plural black marketeers)

1. Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 208:

     There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddlers, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.

   • 1960, Poul Anderson, chapter 18, in Murder in Black Letter‎^[1], New York: Macmillan, page 153:

     He got in on the postwar reconstruction of crime, along lines borrowed from gangland and Communism. He probably set out as a currency black marketeer, working through Switzerland.

Synonyms

• (UK, dated) spiv
• scalper

Related terms

• black marketeering

Translations

trader on the black market

• Burmese: မှောင်ခို (my) (hmaunghkui)
• Danish: sortbørshandler (da)
• French: trafiquant (fr) m, trafiquante (fr) f
• German: Schieber (de) m, Schieberin f
• Greek: μαυραγορίτης (el) m (mavragorítis)
• Indonesian: catut (id)
• Spanish: estraperlista (es)
• Swahili: mlanguzi (sw)
• Turkish: karaborsacı (tr)