All 6 Uses of
black market
in
The Handmaid's Tale
- The cigarettes must have come from the black market, I thought, and this gave me hope.†
Chpt 3 *black market = the coming together of people who buy and sell things illegally
- Even now that there is no real money anymore, there's still a black market.†
Chpt 3
- There's always a black market, there's always something that can be exchanged.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- He must have come by this in the same way he came by the magazines, not honestly: it reeks of black market.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
an illegal market that trades in illegal goods, stolen goods, or goods sold illegally to avoid tax payments, licensing requirements, or rationing