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black-market

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black-mar·ket (blkmärkt)
tr.v. black-mar·ket·ed, black-mar·ket·ing, black-mar·kets
To trade (something) in the black market.
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Adj.1.black-market - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"

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A 2 September 2004 article in Nature says many Thai farmers are turning to ineffective black-market vaccines to avoid killing their birds.
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