Smuggling
[ˈsmʌglɪŋ] or ['smʌɡlɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due.
Checked by Bernadette--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smuggle
Edited by Cary
Examples
- Not many people are scrupulous about smuggling, when, without perjury, they can find an easy and safe opportunity of doing so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the penalties of smuggling must arise in proportion to the temptation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The price was enormously high, and made successful smuggling very profitable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An injudicious tax offers a great temptation to smuggling. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In these particular branches of the excise, there is not, I apprehend, much more smuggling in the one country than in the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Sidney