From Longman Business Dictionary contraband con‧tra‧band / ˈkɒntrəbændˈkɑːn- / noun LAW TAX goods that are brought into a country illegally, especially without tax being paid on them He had been accused of smuggling contraband from Brazil. (13) 'Contraband' means any property that is illegal for a person to acquire or possess under a statute, ordinance, or rule, or that a trier of fact lawfully determines to be illegal to possess by reason of the property's involvement in an offense. Then there was the contraband literature which constituted research.The bikes were, technically, contraband, but the border guards turned a blind eye.Congress volunteers sold contraband salt in the cities.A yacht or fishing vessel would find it quite easy to evade our controls and could carry large amounts of contraband.Once, the only tape recorders finding their way into concerts were smuggled like contraband.(32) Patrick Osborne is charged with criminal solicitation and promoting prison contraband. 'contraband' sentence (31) Three years on, it has become the centre for trade in contraband and counterfeit goods. One problem with descramblers is that they are not inherently illegal, like contraband. (30) The man trains dogs to sniff out contraband hidden in suitcases and other objects.Some made their way to the Union towns singly or in small groups larger numbers returned with Union. In North Carolina, the Union-held enclaves around Plymouth, Washington, Beaufort, Morehead City, Roanoke Island, and especially New Bern attracted large populations of contrabands. X-ray technology, the machines, in scanning for contraband, produce a crude image of visitors' bodies without clothing. Recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery. The term 'contraband' remained in use throughout the war.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Crime & law contraband con‧tra‧band / ˈkɒntrəbænd $ ˈkɑːn- / noun PET SC goods that are brought into a country illegally, especially to avoid tax a cargo of contraband - contraband adjective contraband cigarettes Examples from the Corpus contraband
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