contraband
['kɒntrәbænd]
n. 违禁品, 走私

a. 禁运, 非买卖

[] 走私, 非买卖(运输), 禁运品

1. The seizure of contraband is made by customs.
   那些走私品被海。
2. Illegal traffic in contraband; smuggling.
   走私违禁品非买卖；走私
3. Contraband goods were found in the storehouse of the hotel.
   旅馆储藏室里走私货。

contraband
[ noun ]

1. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law

<noun.artifact>

[ adj ]

1. distributed or sold illicitly

<adj.all>
the black economy pays no taxes

Contraband \Con"tra*band\, n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando
ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See {Ban} an edict.]
1. Illegal or prohibited traffic.

Persons the most bound in duty to prevent
contraband, and the most interested in the seizures.
--Burke.

2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
which is forbidden.

3. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered
contraband of war. [U.S.]

{Contraband of war}, that which, according to international
law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at
the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved
belligerent. --Wharton.


Contraband \Con"tra*band\, a.
Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as,
contraband goods, or trade.

The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure,
with the fair trade. --Burke.


Contraband \Con"tra*band\, v. t.
1. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
[Obs.] --Johnson.

2. To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.]

The law severly contrabands
Our taking business of men's hands. --Hudibras.