grey market

1. 1.

   an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency

   Synonymsgray market

   Broadermarket

Questions about grey market

What does grey market mean?

grey market means "an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency".

What is another word for grey market?

Close synonyms include gray market. 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 grey market a common word?

grey market 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.