contraband
barang selundupan
definition
noun
the police looked for drugs, guns, and other contraband
goods that have been imported or exported illegally.
adjective
contraband drug shipments
imported or exported illegally, either in defiance of a total ban or without payment of duty.
translation of 'contraband'
noun
barang selundupan,
barang gelap
adjective
gelap
example
Many of the goods she sells are 'contraband' items smuggled in from The Gambia (about 30 kilometers to the south).
Last year customs launched a three-year £209 million strategy to tackle tobacco smuggling, but with a flood of 'contraband' cigarettes still easily available, some vendors feel more must be done.
The mastermind of a massive smuggling operation to flood Yorkshire with millions of 'contraband' cigarettes has been jailed for four years.
The 'contraband' at park headquarters has a market value totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
‘If his business is clean, we can dismiss the usual explanations of narcotics, 'contraband' or human trafficking,’ he said.
You need to discuss your rights to living in an environment free of 'contraband' and illegal activity, your right to privacy, and the need for a fair and sanctioned visitation policy.
Its key characteristic is not cross border shopping and bootlegging but large scale fraud in which millions of cigarettes evade duty and appear on the 'contraband' market.
The practice is certainly not confined to housewives buying more sugar to fill up their pantry, nor to small-time smugglers holding 'contraband' merchandise in mountain-caves.
But like drugs, and alcohol during Prohibition, black-market 'contraband' always provides a means to acquire whatever is the forbidden fruit of the moment.
Wisconsin upheld a regulation that allowed probation officers to search probationers based on ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe 'contraband' is present.
More importantly, they want control of the 'contraband' trade in drugs and arms in the area.
As the search team finds 'contraband' , evidence, or illegal weapons, they will evacuate each item to the detention/collection team, which should locate somewhere near the entry point.
Seizures in Scotland have shown that the Russian mafia disguise their 'contraband' goods by hiding them in tons of scrap metal and rags inside container lorries.
The price differential is now €1.14 per litre in the North against 79 cent in the Republic, making for a lucrative 'contraband' market.
The tip-off led to the discovery of an illegal cigarette importation racket and a large quantity of 'contraband' was seized.
Their political power is tied to networks of corruption and 'contraband' .
The intent, apparently, was to patrol an area that was known for 'contraband' trafficking, but it was an undocumented mission.
At a frontier, one's personal belongings are subject to scrutiny, one's suitcases opened and searched for 'contraband' , and one's passport examined to ensure that one's credentials are in order, and all this is done by a customs officer.
They worked only at night, riding from plantation to plantation, stopping black people, searching their homes for 'contraband' and whipping any slave caught traveling without a written pass.
Some girls and boys are used by drug dealers and smugglers to transport and sell drugs and 'contraband' goods and some are used to beg on the streets.
Lucian's family had a history of smuggling and trading 'contraband' items when taxes got too high for people's tolerance.
We will take the fight to all those involved in piracy and 'contraband' trafficking.
But 90 per cent of those polled also backed random searches for 'contraband' - and educational authorities are making moves to ‘get tough in the war on drugs’.
‘I'm convinced that such illegal activities will cease as soon as the police arrest the 'contraband' mafia bosses,’ she said.
He carries concealed 'contraband' , which he sneaks into the country in order to avoid inspection by the U.S. Customs Service.
Other government figures said the dispatch of soldiers to the border was to curb 'contraband' traffic in the region.
I have researched 'contraband' caviar in Azerbaijan, in Astrakhan, and Moscow and have seen the toll it took on depleting fish stocks.
On the contrary, the moment a book becomes illegal 'contraband' it is suddenly all the more desirable.
Knowing Rory, he probably ran a little 'contraband' on the side, but the authorities often turn a blind eye to small scale smuggling.
If they catch me, I'll flee across the Mexican border with my truckload of 'contraband' .
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