contraband
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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
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example
In 1728 Spain founded the Caracas Company to combat this 'contraband' and to control exports to Spain from the region.
This lust for profit means they will trade in anything that makes money: drugs, 'contraband' goods, even illegal immigrants.
Many 'contraband' items such as drugs are smuggled in without being declared even though it is common knowledge that the drugs trade exists.
The international cocaine trade re-emerged in Colombia in the 1970s, courtesy of a mafia which cut its teeth on 'contraband' whiskey, marijuana and luxury goods.
Casey, thank you for that report, a report of success in dealing with the 'contraband' and the smugglers in the weaponry for global terrorism.
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.
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’.
The proceeds of the drugs trade or other 'contraband' finance organised crime groups.
Smuggling is not a small phenomenon: we have estimated that, globally, a third of legal cigarette exports disappear into the 'contraband' market.
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.
With caves, coves and beaches round the island, there was many a hiding place for smugglers, and 'contraband' was a way of life on Portland - with even the man employed by the government to put a stop to the practice deeply involved.
On the contrary, the moment a book becomes illegal 'contraband' it is suddenly all the more desirable.
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.
With legal imports in 1998 of $15 billion, 'contraband' accounted for 25 percent of all imports.
He has been charged with attempting to smuggle 'contraband' drugs.
You were with me, and we were busy busting that international 'contraband' gang.
Membership has instead arguably contributed to a growth in the shadow economy, and most notably, 'contraband' , due to tax harmonization.
More importantly, they want control of the 'contraband' trade in drugs and arms in the area.
I have researched 'contraband' caviar in Azerbaijan, in Astrakhan, and Moscow and have seen the toll it took on depleting fish stocks.
A comparison of Colombian tobacco imports with US tobacco exports reveals just how many 'contraband' cigarettes were being shipped southward from the United States.
The intent, apparently, was to patrol an area that was known for 'contraband' trafficking, but it was an undocumented mission.
Wisconsin upheld a regulation that allowed probation officers to search probationers based on ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe 'contraband' is present.
Massive police raids on 'contraband' markets in Mexico City earlier this year met with resistance from vendors who hurled sticks and stones and trashed vehicles to defend their merchandise.
He added that trained police dogs have long been a presence in Army prisons, where they are used for sniffing out narcotics and other 'contraband' among the prisoners, and, occasionally, for riot control.
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.
The tip-off led to the discovery of an illegal cigarette importation racket and a large quantity of 'contraband' was seized.
It survived on 'contraband' and piracy, trading cattle, hides, sugar, tobacco, and foodstuffs directly with other nations.
Many of the goods she sells are 'contraband' items smuggled in from The Gambia (about 30 kilometers to the south).
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.
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