
‘Near the tourist zone foreigners are hustled by touts selling black-market cigars.’. ‘Once steroids became contraband, many athletes bought black-market anabolics that were cut with other drugs or intended solely for veterinary use.’. ‘To discourage black-market sales, buyers are allowed just one piece of any product, and clothes in their own sizes.’. ‘The service also keeps tabs on black-market websites where fraudsters often try to sell stolen account information.’. ‘The paper reports that there is a thriving trade in black-market exam papers and implies this might have motivated the creation of the virus.’. ‘He eventually learns that his friend has become a black-market dealer in penicillin.’. ‘It is also advisable to bring a certain amount of US dollars in cash, as there is a strong black-market economy, which means that big bills are often paid in dollars.’. ‘Most of the mayor's staff were part of his extended family and all benefited from the black-market sale of diesel and gasoline in the city.’.
‘This was a profit of $12.75, and people were very happy to get them at the fine black-market price I was giving.’. ‘There are thought to be more than 100,000 illegal migrants and asylum seekers, who are banned from working, and involved in the black-market economy.’. ‘But he denied that he had an account of more than $5 million, alleged to be the leftovers of proceeds from the black-market sale of weapons.’. ‘Then there is the black-market trader, who veers between the criminal and entrepreneurial.’. ‘He said sanctions often benefit individuals in power because of their ability to control and profit from the black-market economy.’. ‘The capital is also the center of a thriving black-market economy that encompasses everything from smuggling to prostitution and drug trafficking.’. ‘But like drugs, and alcohol during Prohibition, black-market contraband always provides a means to acquire whatever is the forbidden fruit of the moment.’.
‘Investigators concluded that the colonel enlisted his men in a black-market currency scheme that netted him tens of thousands of dollars.’.‘Keeping drugs illegal not only costs billions in enforcement, but loses billions in tax revenue by keeping the drug trade a black-market affair.’.