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contrabandist

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con⋅tra⋅band⋅ist

  [kon-truh-ban-dist]
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–noun
a person engaged in contraband trade; smuggler.
Origin:
1810–20; < Sp contrabandista. See contraband, -ist

Related forms:
con⋅tra⋅band⋅ism, noun
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con·tra·band   (kŏn'trə-bānd')   
n.  

  1. Goods prohibited by law or treaty from being imported or exported.

    1. Illegal traffic in contraband; smuggling.

    2. Smuggled goods.

  3. Goods that may be seized and confiscated by a belligerent if shipped to another belligerent by a neutral.

  4. An escaped slave during the Civil War who fled to or was taken behind Union lines.

adj.  Prohibited from being imported or exported.

[Italian contrabbando : contra-, against (from Latin contrā-; see contra-) + bando, legal proclamation (from Late Latin bannus, of Germanic origin; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots).]
con'tra·band'age n., con'tra·band'ist n.
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