contraband

contraband is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Illegal or prohibited traffic. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
2. noun. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
3. noun. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
4. adjective. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
5. transitive verb. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
6. transitive verb. To declare prohibited; to forbid.
7. noun. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
8. adjective. distributed or sold illicitly

   "the black economy pays no taxes"

   Synonyms: black, bootleg, smuggled

Synonyms

black, bootleg, smuggled

Common word forms

contrabands

Words from these letters

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