Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
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- noun A dealer in
contraband .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who imports or exports without paying duties
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Examples
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The slave-traders in the Congo look upon their employment as did the contrabandist in the golden days of smuggling; the “free sailor” whom Marryatt depicts, a law-breaker, yet not less a very pleasant, companionable fellow.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and an informant on the side.
The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966
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Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and would therefore know people who were prepared to kill for a fix of snow, or who were prepared to expose the most sacrosanct confidences of friends and inform on them.
The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966
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Our Dutch friend Gist was, correctly speaking, a contrabandist.
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Chinese junk, to draw up beside the English contrabandist and transfer the cargo in the outer harbor.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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On the right of the picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa enters, upon his mule, and in front of him is an athletic Castilian armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 Various
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Francisco L. Rojas, a shipowner, contrabandist, and merchant, was not so fortunate.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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The contrabandist supplies had been of a very limited nature, and now they were over she suffered a more than common misery of reaction from excess.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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At this juncture came the famous blockade runner, the Arkadi, a most successful contrabandist of the American war, and at every trip she made she carried away a number of women and children.
The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901
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Toni which the contrabandist seemed to think no more about.
The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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