| 单词 | contraband trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmascontraband trade 1. Prohibited by law, proclamation, or treaty, to be imported or exported: as contraband goods, etc. So contraband trade, contraband trader: trade, or a trader, in contraband goods. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective] > relating to smuggling contraband1656 run1698 smuggled1707 smuggling1813 bootlegged1922 1656 O. Cromwell Lett. 28 Aug. To prevent the coming of any materials for shipping, or other contraband goods into Cadiz. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 350 To what purpose should he declare by Law such Goods to be contraband..? 1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 112/2 If the neutral ships had carried on any contraband trade. 1769 H. Walpole Let. 7 Sept. in Corr. (1941) X. 289 Plate..is not counterband in its metallic capacity, but totally so in its personal. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer V. 17 Men..from beyond seas, with counterband merchandize. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xiv, in Writings I. 140 A large sympathy for contraband traders. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 345 Spain tried to diminish the vast contraband traffic. < as lemmas |
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