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gray market

noun

a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.

First recorded in 1930–35; gray ¹( def ) (in the sense “indeterminate or intermediate in character” + market ( none )

Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.

Last year, as I began to conceive a novel, set in shadowy Istanbul, about the sale of a gray market antiquity worth millions.

If the burgeoning gray market in political money is to be countered, a few things need to happen.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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