black marketeering

English

Noun

black marketeering (uncountable)

1. The practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
   • 1953, Maurice Samuel, chapter 11, in Level Sunlight‎^[1], New York: Knopf, page 176:

     They built themselves, to the north of Tel Aviv, a driver’s quarter with some of the handsomest houses in Israel—and it was impossible to do this without a good deal of black-marketeering in building material.

   • 2013, Richard Flanagan, chapter 2, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Chatto & Windus, published 2014:

     For several months he made a hand-to-mouth living from such petty thieving and black marketeering as was possible.