单词 | smuggling |
释义 | smugglingn. Clandestine importation of goods, etc. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2020). smugglingadj. That smuggles, or is engaged in smuggling: a. Of persons. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1698adj.1813 |
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