black marketeerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

black marketeer (plural black marketeers)

1. Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 208:

     There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddlers, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.

   • 1960, Poul Anderson, chapter 18, in Murder in Black Letter‎, New York: Macmillan, page 153:

     He got in on the postwar reconstruction of crime, along lines borrowed from gangland and Communism. He probably set out as a currency black marketeer, working through Switzerland.