Smuggler
['smʌg(ə)lə(r);'smʌglə(r)] or ['smʌglɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who imports or exports without paying duties.
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Definition
(n.) One who smuggles.
(n.) A vessel employed in smuggling.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Contrabandist.
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- Alcibiades is only a smuggler, observed Caliphronas, who was listening to this discourse. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This illegal exportation is advantageous to nobody but the smuggler. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The American traders and Mexican smugglers came to the relief. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was, in addition, a small American trading post, at which goods were sold to Mexican smugglers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Smugglers landing laces and silks have been known to wind them around their bodies, as being less ostentatious than carrying them in a trunk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The smugglers furnished the animals, and took their pay in goods of the description before mentioned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained within it a much closer and more confined jail for smugglers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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