smuggling
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4.5
- noun
- /ˈsmʌɡlɪŋ/
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contrabando
- Terrorist cells and organizations are also increasingly using cash couriers and bulk cash smuggling to transfer funds.
- drug smuggling
- smuggling and trafficking
- human smuggling
So then, OK, human smuggling into the United States.
- So then, OK, human smuggling into the United States.
- I mean, we've got we've got human smuggling slash sex trafficking, we've got drugs.
- But it's just, it's a, it's, it's a wild story because you have boats getting busted for smuggling GPUs and things a couple months ago.
- He finds a town which specialises in the smuggling of Peacocks to Chicago in the back of trucks.
- And that's just one method that they use for smuggling and money.
- And so loads of smuggling, not much tea actually drunk.
- They do this every day in the smuggling network for human, human smuggling.
- The people named drug smuggling drugs entrepreneurs.
- So you can go onto Facebook and and find sites that'll offer smuggling.
- You, you, you break our law, you drug smuggling or murder, we will hang you no matter what.
- You know, you don't seem like this mad drug smuggling.
- Yeah, it's certainly something to do with with what you get duty free there, smuggling anything you want.
Examples
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But once he began to focus on this problem, it became easy to see why smuggling was so widespread.
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We have uncovered a smuggling operation, incredible for its great size and its lack of scruples.
Fiction book (1994) -
So then, OK, human smuggling into the United States.
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This smuggling business has been going on for years.
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A year and a half ago we liked him for drug smuggling.
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Do you have any idea what the punishment is for drug smuggling where you are?
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In most cases, the women concerned discussed smuggling in the past tense.
Academic text (2008) -
I want you to send messages to all the major smuggling chiefs whose groups operate in this area.
Fiction book (1991) -
We are fighting cartels that are not just smuggling people, smuggling terrorists, smuggling drugs and smuggling guns.
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The authorities seized a shipment of illegal firearms during their investigation into arms smuggling.
Synonyms
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5.6
Illegal buying and selling of people, animals and goods often across borders
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3.8
Taking goods or people across a border in secret and against the law
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Etymology
Smuggling comes from old Dutch and German words such as smuggle that meant 'to carry secretly', where people hid goods under a ship or in their clothes to avoid customs. That's why smuggling means secretly bringing goods across borders or bringing things in without paying duty.