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SMUGGLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Import or export without paying customs duties

Example:

She smuggled cigarettes across the border

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "smuggle" is one way to...):

import (bring in from abroad)

export (sell or transfer abroad)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence examples:

They smuggle the food to the people

They smuggle the people the food

Derivation:

smuggler (someone who imports or exports without paying duties)

smuggling (secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due)

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