About The Word Contraband
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Contraband
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What's The Definition Of Contraband?
[n] goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
[adj] distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" Synonyms | Synonyms for Contraband: black | black-market | bootleg | illegal | smuggled Related Terms | Find terms related to Contraband: actionable | against the law | anarchic | anarchistic | anomic | ban | banned | barred | black-market | bootleg | bootleg liquor | chargeable | cigarette smuggling | cigarettes | contrabandage | contrary to law | criminal | denial | disallowance | disapproved | dope | dope smuggling | drugs | Eighteenth Amendment | embargo | excluded | exclusion | felonious | flawed | forbade | forbid | forbiddance | forbidden | forbidden fruit | forbidding | gunrunning | hot | hot goods | illegal | illegitimate | illicit | impermissible | index | index expurgatorius | index librorum prohibitorum | inhibition | injunction | interdict | interdiction | interdictum | irregular | jewel smuggling | jewels | justiciable | law | lawless | narcotics | narcotics smuggling | nonconstitutional | nonlegal | nonlicit | no-no | nonpermissible | not permitted | off limits | out of bounds | outlaw | outlawed | preclusion | prevention | prohibited | prohibition | Prohibition Party | prohibitory injunction | proscribed | proscription | punishable | refusal | rejection | repression | restrictive covenants | ruled out | ruling out | rumrunning | run | shut out | smuggled goods | smuggling | statute | stolen goods | sumptuary laws | suppression | taboo | tabooed | triable | unallowed | unauthorized | unconstitutional | under the ban | under-the-counter | under-the-table | unlawful | unlicensed | unofficial | unpermissible | unsanctioned | unstatutory | untouchable | unwarrantable | unwarranted | verboten | vetoed | Volstead Act | wrongful | zoning | zoning laws See Also | merchandise | product | wares Contraband In Webster's Dictionary \Con"tra*band\, n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando
ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See {Ban} an edict.]
1. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Persons the most bound in duty to prevent
contraband, and the most interested in the seizures.
--Burke.
2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
which is forbidden.
3. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered
contraband of war. [U.S.]
{Contraband of war}, that which, according to international
law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at
the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved
belligerent. --Wharton.
\Con"tra*band\, a. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade. The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade. --Burke. \Con"tra*band\, v. t. 1. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. [Obs.] --Johnson. 2. To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.] The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands. --Hudibras. |
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