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  • I bought myself a nice pair of boots with that money, and even shopped for an electro-bomb on the black market—a weapon that disables guns in its vicinity.†   (source)
  • Some call it the underground, others the black market, but all I care about is what they can do.†   (source)
  • But—black market, barter currency?†   (source)
  • Sister Agatha will be having to shop on the black market soon enough, and it's not cheap.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they are stolen and turn up on a meal-card black market.†   (source)
  • Now the black market is so much healthier than the legitimate economy I've seen people use zaires for repairing cracks in their walls.†   (source)
  • I removed a black market fifty-mark bill from my tunic pocket.†   (source)
  • The NCAA rules had created a black market—and done for high school football players what the Soviet police had once done for Levi's blue jeans.†   (source)
  • Stay away from the black market.†   (source)
  • At various times, in various situations, they carried M-14s and CAR-15s and Swedish Ks and grease guns and captured AK-47s and Chi-Coms and RPGs and Simonov carbines and black market Uzis and .†   (source)
  • 6 million on the Middle Eastern antiquities black market last year.†   (source)
  • Graham had strong-armed most people into handing over any packs they'd salvaged and had supposedly put an Arcadian named Asher in charge of distributing them, but there was already a fledgling black market; people were trading nutrition packs for blankets and taking on extra water shifts in exchange for reserved spots inside the crowded tents.†   (source)
  • "This is a lovely piece," she said, "but it won't go far on the black market these days.†   (source)
  • In the real world, some doctors and nurses peddled drugs on black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed first-line tb drugs with cough medicine.†   (source)
  • One Wennerström company registered in Cyprus caused a dramatic stir when it was revealed that it had attempted to buy enriched uranium on the black market in Ukraine.†   (source)
  • He hadbeen trying to organize a Kitchen Workers' Union and had recently charged the camp's chief steward, a Caucasian, with stealing sugar and meat from the warehouses to sell on the black market.†   (source)
  • The banks paid about one hundred rials for a single dollar, but Moody said the black market rate was better.†   (source)
  • Because regulation of a legal market is bound to fail when a healthy black market exists for the same product.†   (source)
  • I suppose you could steal it or buy it on the black market.†   (source)
  • The harsh lifestyle, the lack of food, the drabness of people's dress, the discrepancy between the official exchange rate and the black market.†   (source)
  • "Black market," said Reba.†   (source)
  • "But perhaps something more cheerful," his friend would finally say, and Litvinoff would happily change the subject, eager to test out one of his philosophical theories on his old friend, or to run by him a new fast-cash plan involving ladies' stockings and the black market, or to describe the pretty girl who lived across the street from him.†   (source)
  • The two girls sell it all on the black market and use the money to buy flashy costume jewelry and cheap perfume.†   (source)
  • Emily dropped her voice as if she were discussing selling contraband on the black market.†   (source)
  • It's a rule: everything an inmate earns goes into the prison account, so their work/release doesn't leave them flush with cash that could juice up Lorton's black market for almost any good or service.†   (source)
  • If this were possible, imagine the black market in peculiar souls that might spring up among the wealthy and unscrupulous.†   (source)
  • An antique like this has to go for eight, ten thousand for a legal collection, twice that on the black market.†   (source)
  • The black market can supply what the wealthy people need.†   (source)
  • It set him on edge more than any of the black markets and seedy dens he'd visited in Zenuvia.†   (source)
  • He's done much more and much worse than your little fling at the black market, but he's smart enough to keep himself out of courtrooms.†   (source)
  • They are contraband Africans direct from the black market.†   (source)
  • "Can you buy it on the black market?" he asked.†   (source)
  • But black market profiteers had filled entire warehouses with staples like flour, coffee, sugar, and delicious smoked meats.†   (source)
  • Half the food on this planet is in the black market, or is not reckoned through one ruling or another.†   (source)
  • Intel suggested that they had obtained inoculations through black market sources.†   (source)
  • An engineer who worked at the Shell refinery at Corio said that he had managed to buy a little petrol on the black market in Fitzroy but very properly refused to name the scoundrel who had sold it.†   (source)
  • "Ten credits down the drain, black market," he shot at Powell.†   (source)
  • He talked about his life at home, the black market and how he felt like a worthless bum.   (source)
    black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • Discuss little more than trades in the Hob, which is the black market where I make most of my money.   (source)
    black market = where things are sold illegally
  • Everyone's trading on the black market; every errand boy has something to offer.   (source)
    black market = where people buy and sell things illegally
  • Most businesses are closed by this time on reaping day, but the black market's still fairly busy.   (source)
    black market = illegal market
  • The black market is doing a booming business.   (source)
    black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • Maybe Miep will be able to scrounge up something on the black market.   (source)
  • 50 guilders on the black market.   (source)
  • According to the newspaper, everyone is entitled to half a pound, but they mean those lucky souls who get their ration books from the government, not Jews in hiding like us who can only afford to buy four rather than eight ration books on the black market.   (source)
  • He said he'd bought it on the black market.†   (source)
  • I mean, even Twelve had a black market, right?†   (source)
  • The cigarettes must have come from the black market, I thought, and this gave me hope.†   (source)
  • Poaching, trading on the black market, mocking the Capitol in the woods.†   (source)
  • I'm sure you know how difficult it can be to get one on the black market."†   (source)
  • Migrant Miguel Olivas described the meal-card black market.†   (source)
  • There's always a black market, there's always something that can be exchanged.†   (source)
  • In 1943, Oskar Schindler was arrested and briefly jailed for his black market activities.†   (source)
  • I brought you to a black market surgeon in the Dregs" last night.†   (source)
  • Sometimes food was available on the black market, but one had to have something to exchange.†   (source)
  • Even now that there is no real money anymore, there's still a black market.†   (source)
  • That People's State has been hinting about it on the black market for a long time.†   (source)
  • After all, you knowingly bought Africans on the black market.†   (source)
  • I can unload plenty of it in the black market if he'll make a deal.'†   (source)
  • I might have asked … er, ordered Tweedy to see if he could acquire some on the black market.†   (source)
  • Bootlegged, homemade, black market, collectors.†   (source)
  • But that's just a trick to get me to confess I've been making money in the black market.†   (source)
  • And I can tell you that yes, DeBlass occasionally used the black market.†   (source)
  • For one, black markets are a cash business.†   (source)
  • The best,' said Milo, 'that the black market has to offer.†   (source)
  • "It's more likely it came through the black market."†   (source)
  • "Where there's war, there's black markets," Max reflected.†   (source)
  • How much do you buy through the black market?†   (source)
  • We've got a water black market on Venus.†   (source)
  • He owned a collection that he had bought on the black market and watched ten to twelve movies a week—Iranian, French, American, of course Bollywood—he didn't care.†   (source)
  • The going black market rate for a Memphis high school superstar five years earlier appeared to have been around $150,000.†   (source)
  • They were instructed to monitor transactions at ration boards and prowl post offices, train and bus stations, taxi stands, ferry landings, mines, black market outlets, dive hotels and lodging houses, and any businesses that might attract a man fluent in French.†   (source)
  • Then again, this is not the kind of museum anyone would rob—there's not much call on the black market for extinct flowers, Inuit kayaks, or giant squid carcasses."†   (source)
  • But lately without the black market not so many commercants cross the border and it will be difficult.†   (source)
  • The black market was for things like fuel oil, foods, metals, and so on—mostly items that were rationed or illegal to trade.†   (source)
  • He was probably a turncoat—a programmer who intentionally coded back doors and security holes into a system he designed, so that he could later sell them on the black market.†   (source)
  • Years ago it was a warehouse to store coal, but when it fell into disuse, it became a meeting place for illegal trades and then blossomed into a full-time black market.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of the month, the neighborhood association began confiscating many of our ceramics and scrolls to sell them on what we called the "gray market," which was different from the black market.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of desperate and corrupt people working for the government (and for every major corporation), and these people often sold information on the OASIS black market.†   (source)
  • Curley would stand in full view of the captives as he hoisted their food over the fence to civilians, or packed it onto his bicycle and pedaled off to sell it on the black market, where it would bring astronomical prices.†   (source)
  • In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person's activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card.†   (source)
  • He has a cigarette stuck in the corner of his mouth, which shows that he too has something he can trade on the black market.†   (source)
  • When we were most desperate, Father once again asked his friend Wojek, who lived outside the ghetto, to sell one on the black market.†   (source)
  • Because the candles were nearly impossible to find even on the black market, she blew them out immediately after the prayers.†   (source)
  • He must have come by this in the same way he came by the magazines, not honestly: it reeks of black market.†   (source)
  • I thought then that maybe she bleached it, that hair dye was something else she could get through the black market, but I know now that it really is blond.†   (source)
  • With money from black market dealings, he bought a piece of land adjacent to his Emalia factory, built the barracks, and persuaded Commandant Goeth with smooth talk and substantial amounts of money that having his workers nearby would increase productivity.†   (source)
  • To help some of them conceal their big feet—and their coming growth spurts—Woolf started up a black market in his shoes.†   (source)
  • He was as delighted as anyone else with the treats one could find on the black market, but he defended his government's duty to punish offending shopkeepers.†   (source)
  • His team's job is to break up the black markets that have sent prices soaring The army schools perfected his Japanese.†   (source)
  • Any mugger with even a little initiative is bound to be armed, for in a country like the United States, with a thriving black market in guns, anyone can get hold of one.†   (source)
  • It's just the old people who can't get enough, and I don't think the black market is attuned to their needs or ours.†   (source)
  • "Well, no," people said in drawing rooms, "you mustn't call it a black market, because it isn't, really.†   (source)
  • The rials were worth about two thousand dollars and the U.S. cash could be multiplied six fold if I could manage to negotiate a black market transaction.†   (source)
  • They're profiteers of the black market who grow rich by defrauding the poor of their rightful share, at a time of desperate shortage.†   (source)
  • Later that day, when Moody returned from work and I told him that our three friends were out of business, he said, "Well, they must have been selling something black market, or this would not have happened."†   (source)
  • Milo knows the black market.†   (source)
  • But the bookkeeping is in such a snarl that I'm smuggling a few thousand tons into the black market every week.†   (source)
  • We have to assume it was black market.†   (source)
  • …making a stand against enemies whose actions might appear somewhat shabby in the eyes of the public-where you won't be a hero, but a common criminal, a greedy industrialist who's cheated the law for a plain motive of profit, a racketeer of the black market who's broken the national regulations designed to protect the public welfare-a hero without glory and without public, who'll accomplish no more than about half a column of newsprint somewhere on page five-now would you still care to…†   (source)
  • 'Black market,' she said indifferently.†   (source)
  • In Hiroshima, the early postwar years were, besides, a time, especially painful for poor people like her, of disorder, hunger, greed, thievery, black markets.†   (source)
  • There was no electricity to light their shacks, and at dusk each evening, lonely, confused, and disillusioned, they gathered in an open area near the Yokogawa railroad station to deal in the black markets and console each other.†   (source)
  • As soon as they arrived they would sprinkle everything with pepper bought on the black market, tear off their clothes, and make love with sweating bodies, then fall asleep and wake to find that the bugs had rallied and were massing for the counter-attack.†   (source)
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