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Definition of "smuggling" []

  • Present participle of smuggle. (verb)
  • An act of smuggling. (noun)

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Use "smuggling" in a sentence
  • "I go upon the sea on these cruises, which you call smuggling, and what not, and of which he speaks censoriously, but if they do not show a large enough profit on his books he rates me most severely, and charges me with a lack of enterprise."
  • "Lymington sends two members to Parliament, and this and her salt trade is all I can say to her; for though she is very well situated as to the convenience of shipping I do not find they have any foreign commerce, except it be what we call smuggling and roguing; which, I may say, is the reigning commerce of all this part of the English coast, from the mouth of the Thames to the Land's End of"
  • "Human smuggling is a corrupt and exploitative criminal enterprise that should not only be discouraged but prosecuted."