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- Dictionarysmuggling/ˈsmʌɡlɪŋ/
noun
- 1. the illegal movement of goods into or out of a country: "cocaine smuggling has increased alarmingly"
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the crime of taking goods or people into or out of a country illegally: drug / human / tobacco smuggling. a smuggling organization / operation / ring. A major trend in the smuggling of intellectual property these days is microchips.
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
: to import or export something in violation of the customs laws. Examples of smuggle in a Sentence. He was arrested for smuggling drugs into the country. They smuggled immigrants across the border. The paintings had been smuggled out of the country before the war. We smuggled his favorite sandwich past the nurse.
to take things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally: She was caught trying to smuggle 26 kilos of heroin out of/into the country. They managed to smuggle a video of the captive journalists out of the prison. Fewer examples. All four men deny trying to smuggle drugs.
Jul 1, 2024 · Smuggling, conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of goods to evade customs duties or import or export restrictions. Smuggling flourishes wherever there are high-revenue duties (e.g., on tea, spirits, and silks in 18th-century England, coffee in many European.
verb. If someone smuggles things or people into a place or out of it, they take them there illegally or secretly. ...speculation that the Arctic Sea is being used for smuggling weapons. [VERB noun] The gang was allegedly smuggling migrants from Calais to Britain. [VERB noun preposition]
verb (used with object) , smug·gled, smug·gling. to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty. to bring, take, put, etc., surreptitiously: She smuggled the gun into the jail inside a cake.
