Noun:

சட்டமீறிய வணிகம்,

contraband's Usage Examples:

This state of things, it was plain, must continue as long as the trade was only a contraband commerce, involving merely pecuniary penalties.

Customs officers use large-scale gamma ray and x-ray imaging systems to safely and efficiently screen conveyances for contraband, including weapons of mass destruction.

I thought you were involved in drugs or contraband of some sort.

A question thereupon arose as to the manner in which the privileges thereby purported to be conferred affected the jurisdiction of the sultan over such dhows, the masters of which, as was alleged, used their immunity from search for thepurpose of carrying on contraband trade in slaves, arms and ammunition.

It seems contrary to common sense that neutral ships should be exposed to being detained, taken out of their course, and overhauled on mere suspicion of carrying contraband, when they are so far from the seat of war that there can be no presumption as to their destination.

As regards Spanish America, England was content to profit by theAsiento treaty, which gave her the monopoly of slavehunting for the Spanish colonies and an opening for contraband trade.

On the other, the complaint is based on the " interference " with neutral trade, which means the stoppage and search of vessels to ascertain whether they have contraband of any kind on board or not.

To the Declaration of Paris of 1856, prescribing certain rules of naval warfare, Marcy on behalf of his government refused to subscribe, because Great Britain had rejected his proposed amendment exempting from seizure in time of war all private property not contraband.

No estimate can be made of the contraband, which must have been large.

The trade was contraband, and the opium was bought by the Chinese from depot ships at the ports.

He became well known in the country of Anjou, over which he travelled as a pedlar and dealer in contraband goods.

Synonyms:

black-market, illegal, bootleg, black, smuggled,

Antonyms:

honorable, whiten, white, chromatic color, legal,