What's the difference between contraband and contrabandist?
Contraband
Definition:
(n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
(n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
(n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
(a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
(v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
(v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Kasich wins Ohio primary: ‘The campaign goes on’ It’s a wonderful testament to today’s Republican party that you can measure a candidate’s credentials by the lack of contraband.
(3) The Ohio native suffered from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, his lawyers say, and he had been drinking contraband alcohol and snorting Valium – both provided by other soldiers – the night of the killings.
(4) The type and quantity of drug, its container, and the hiding place modify the potential toxicity of the contraband drug.
(5) A hotline has been set up for concerned citizens to anonymously report sightings of contraband cheese and other products.
(6) It’s not the first time remote-control helicopters have been used to smuggle contraband into prisons.
(7) Black drivers were stopped and searched significantly more often than white drivers in Ferguson, the report found, despite black drivers being less likely to be carrying contraband.
(8) For example, the report found that inmate on inmate assaults were 28% higher in contract prisons, and confiscation of contraband mobile phones occurred eight times more.
(9) Contraband is being delivered to upper cells in Pentonville prison in London by drone.
(10) And while black and brown New Yorkers are stopped exponentially more often , the NYPD’s own data “demonstrate slightly higher rates of contraband yield” from white people than Hispanics or blacks.
(11) "Like all others who come with him he will be strip-searched, photographed, fingerprinted, showered, placed on a bodily orifice scanner to ensure he is not concealing contraband, before being issued with prison clothing and a prison number and then left to consider his future in a reception cubicle holding around 20 others.
(12) Its military operation is designed to prevent kidnappings of foreigners by pirates and extremists and to drive al-Shabaab from its main base, the port city of Kismayo, a smuggling point for weapons and contraband.
(13) Hubert Géant, the director of police at the national office of hunting and wild fauna, said: "The contraband from wild animals has become the most lucrative criminal activity after drugs, fake money and the trafficking of human beings.
(14) NT police have issued 62 infringement notices to people with contraband fireworks in the last year.
(15) The United States Customs Service policies the borders of the country for smuggling of contraband, sometimes accomplished within body cavities.
(16) Classic narcocorridos with names like 'Contrabando y Traicion' (Contraband and Treachery) and 'La Pista Secreta' (The Secret Landing Strip) - are the most popular, although Jose Angel claims that prison has soured his taste for dope songs.
(17) In Ferguson, as in New York, black citizens are also far more likely to be stopped by cops , even though the Attorney General’s office reports that “whites are actually more likely to have contraband”.
(18) "Through the disposal of contraband ivory, we seek to formally demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory," said President Mwai Kibaki.
(19) Government’s routinely destroy other contraband, ivory should be no different.
(20) The guards were even more astonished to find in the middle of the stash of contraband a small, lightweight object, with propellers attached.