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SMUGGLING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("smuggling" is a kind of...):

importation; importing (the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smuggling"):

gunrunning (the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally)

Derivation:

smuggle (import or export without paying customs duties)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb smuggle

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