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  • Thanks to the stealing, a black market with a remarkable diversity of goods flourished in camp.  (source)
    black market = the buying and sell things illegally
  • You can get good money for it on the black market.  (source)
    black market = where things are bought and sold illegally
  • The black market is doing a booming business.  (source)
    black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
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  • "Where did you get this stuff?" he said. "Black market," she said indifferently.  (source)
    Black market = where people buy and sell things illegally
  • 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)
    black markets = the coming together of groups of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • You used to tell me sometimes you had some contacts in the black market.†  (source)
    black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • 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)
    black markets = the coming together of groups of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • There were often dangerous and desperate people about—the sort who would rob you, rape you, and then sell your organs on the black market.†  (source)
    black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • His team's job is to break up the black markets that have sent prices soaring The army schools perfected his Japanese.†  (source)
    black markets = the coming together of groups of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • There were no more garden parties to contend with, no more silk stockings except through the black market.†  (source)
    black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • It set him on edge more than any of the black markets and seedy dens he'd visited in Zenuvia.†  (source)
    black markets = the coming together of groups of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • Sometimes they are stolen and turn up on a meal-card black market.†  (source)
    black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
  • 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)
    black markets = the coming together of groups of people who buy and sell things illegally
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