SMUGGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smuggling mean? 

• SMUGGLING (noun)
  The noun SMUGGLING has 1 sense:

1. secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due

  Familiarity information: SMUGGLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMUGGLING (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)

 Context examples 

There is wild talk of cannon aboard, and of strange raids and expeditions she may make, ranging from opium smuggling into the States and arms smuggling into China, to blackbirding and open piracy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had been a member of the crew of the smuggling schooner Halcyon when she was captured by a revenue cutter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So that was all we could draw from him; but, young as I was, I had heard of coast smuggling and of packages carried to lonely places at night, so that from that time on, if I had heard that the preventives had made a capture, I was never easy until I saw the jolly face of Champion Harrison looking out of his smithy door.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)