black marketeer

1. 1.

   someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities

   Broadersupplier

   Part ofblack market

1. 1.

   deal on the black market

   Broaderdeal

   crime

Questions about black marketeer

What does black marketeer mean?

black marketeer means "someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is black marketeer a common word?

black marketeer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.