black market

Questions about black market

What does black market mean?

black market means "people who engage in illicit trade". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black market?

Close synonyms include run. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black market a common word?

black market is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.