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单词 contraband
释义
con·tra·band (kŏntrə-bănd)
n.
1.
a. Goods prohibited by law or treaty from being imported or exported.
b. Goods that are possessed contrary to law or rule, as in a prison or school.
2.
a. Illegal traffic in contraband; smuggling.
b. Smuggled goods.
3. Goods that may be seized and confiscated by a belligerent if shipped to another belligerent by a neutral.
4. An escaped slave during the Civil War who fled to or was taken behind Union lines.
adj.
Prohibited from being imported or exported.

[Italian contrabbando : contra-, against (from Latin contrā-; see CONTRA-) + bando, legal proclamation (from Late Latin bannus, of Germanic origin; see bhā-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).]

contra·bandage n.
contra·bandist n.
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