CONTRABAND

bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled

(adjective) distributed or sold illicitly; “the black economy pays no taxes”

contraband

(noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

contraband (usually uncountable, plural contrabands)

(uncountable) any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess

(uncountable) goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods

(countable, US, historical) A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces.

Adjective

contraband (comparative more contraband, superlative most contraband)

prohibited from being traded

Verb

contraband (third-person singular simple present contrabands, present participle contrabanding, simple past and past participle contrabanded)

(obsolete) To import illegally; to smuggle.

(obsolete) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

• Hudibras

Source: Wiktionary

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Con"tra*band, n. Etym: [It. contrabando; contra + bando ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict.]

1. Illegal or prohobited 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.

Definition: 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 illegaly, 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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