Thesaurus: contraband

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1. n. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
2. n. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
3. n. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
4. a. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
5. v. t. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
6. v. t. To declare prohibited; to forbid.
7. adj. distributed or sold illicitly
8. n. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
9. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as,contraband goods, or trade.The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fairtrade. Burke.
10. j:38/n:62 n. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law