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Business Dictionary :
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Black : adjective : against normal or illegal


Black Market = buying and selling goods in a way which is not allowed by law (as in a time of rationing)

• There is a flourishing black market in spare parts for cars.


• You can buy gold coins on the black market.


• To pay black market prices = to pay high prices to get items which are not easily available


Black Economy = work which is paid for in cash and therefore not declared for tax


In The Black = in credit

• The company has moved into the black.


• My bank account is still in the black.


Black : verb : to forbid trading in certain goods or with certain suppliers

• Three firms were blacked by the government.


• The union has blacked a trucking firm.


Blackleg : noun : worker who goes on working when there is a strike


Black List : noun : list of goods or people or companies which have been blacked


Blacklist : verb : to put goods or people or a company on a black list

• His firm was blacklisted by the government.






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