grey marketeergray marketeern.
/ˌɡreɪ mɑːkᵻˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˌɡreɪ ˌmɑrkəˈtɪ(ə)r/ A person engaged in trading on the grey market. Cf. grey marketer n. at grey market n. Derivatives.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > petty or sordid
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1942 Economist 3 Oct. 414/2 The Ministry of Food fixed maximum prices for cured and fresh herrings, but said nothing in its Order about pickled herrings in jars. The grey marketeers leapt upon their chance.
1948 Life 12 Jan. 34/1 For every ton of steel that actually exists in the gray market there are a dozen gray-marketeers trying to cut in on the deal.
1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 40/2 But also prospering are ‘gray marketeers’ who take advantage of legal loopholes.
2011 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 7 Nov. a1 Some small suppliers are being unfairly maligned as gray marketeers.
Derivatives
grey markeˈteering n. trading on the grey market; cf. grey marketing n. at grey market n. Derivatives.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1943 Flight 7 Oct. 398/1 I heard a funny grey-marketeering story the other day.
1948 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 13 Mar. 2/5 (headline) Explains farm machinery ‘gray marketeering’.
1984 Adweek (U.S.) 16 Apr. (Eastern ed.) 77/2 Vivitar, U.S. maker of camera accessories, is seeking to stop the flow of unauthorized imports (gray marketeering).
2006 Electronic Engin. Times (Nexis) 24 July 1 An ad hoc group of electronics companies concerned about gray marketeering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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