Antonyms for contraband
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : kon-truh-band |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒn trəˌbænd |
Definition of contraband
Origin :- 1520s, "smuggling;" 1590s, "smuggled goods;" from Middle French contrebande "a smuggling," from older Italian contrabando (modern contrabbando) "unlawful dealing," from Latin contra "against" (see contra) + Medieval Latin bannum, from Frankish *ban "a command" or some other Germanic source (see ban (v.)).
- adj black-market; unlawful
- noun black-market production
- Suppose she has to pay excess on her luggage, or to wrangle about contraband?
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- The cargo had been well shipped by men skilled in the subtle art of contraband.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Of this state of things we were informed by a contraband we chanced to meet.
- Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
- He wanted its earrings—they were contraband of war, I suppose.
- Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
- But something new in this veracious narration—the contraband.
- Extract from : « Shoulder-Straps » by Henry Morford
- More than that, Statia became the center for contraband of war.
- Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
- The officer looks at me and says: 'You have contraband Chinamen aboard here?'
- Extract from : « Sonnie-Boy's People » by James B. Connolly
- The contraband agent in China was an ex-Custom-house officer.
- Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
- Here he brought his cargo of contraband spirits and stored them in the cave.
- Extract from : « Pocket Island » by Charles Clark Munn
- They might surely consider the canoe as freighted with goods which were contraband of war.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
Synonyms for contraband
- banned
- bootleg
- bootlegged
- bootlegging
- counterfeiting
- crime
- dealing
- disapproved
- excluded
- forbidden
- goods
- hot
- illegal
- illicit
- interdicted
- moonshine
- piracy
- plunder
- poaching
- prohibited
- proscribed
- rum-running
- shut out
- smuggled
- smuggling
- stuff
- swag
- taboo
- theft
- trafficking
- unauthorized
- verboten
- violation
- wetbacking
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