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单词 smuggling
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smugglingn.

/ˈsmʌɡlɪŋ/
Etymology: < smuggle v.1
Clandestine importation of goods, etc.
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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > smuggling
contrabandc1540
smuggling1698
running business1741
fair trade1815
free trade1815
smugglery1895
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Smuggling, a cant Term for the Running of Goods.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 155 Smuggling, or the offence of importing goods without paying the duties imposed thereon by the laws of the customs and excise.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation Introd. 29 Merchants..dexterously endeavoured to thwart its success [sc. Walpole's project], and consequently the serious check it would have given to smuggling.
1894 J. Macintosh Ayrshire Nights' Entertainm. vii. 109 The smuggling of tea, tobacco, and brandy formed one of the staple industries of the place.
attributive.1698 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 409 Mr. David Barrau, committed to Newgate for the smugling trade, has paid his fine.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. ix. 85 These smuggling engagements are doubtless very extensive.1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 209 I readily joined Wilson in a perilous smuggling adventure.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

smugglingadj.

/ˈsmʌɡlɪŋ/
Etymology: < smuggle v.1
That smuggles, or is engaged in smuggling:
a. Of persons.
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1816 W. Scott Let. 16 May (1933) IV. 234 A pirate or an outlaw or a smuggling bandit.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. x. 279 ‘Is this the smuggling fellow?’ demanded Redgauntlet.
1884 D. Pae Eustace xix. 244 Every smuggling rascal of them has fled to his hole.
b. Of vessels.Perhaps properly an attributive use of the vbl. n.
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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective] > relating to smuggling
contraband1656
run1698
smuggled1707
smuggling1813
bootlegged1922
1813 Examiner 22 Feb. 122/2 The prisoner..was mate of a smuggling cutter.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 47 A smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man.
1836 F. Marryat Three Cutters v, in Pirate & Three Cutters 283 I..have sent them in the smuggling vessel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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