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Definition: Smuggling |
SmugglingNoun1. Secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smuggling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1755. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | Moving goods across a customs frontier in a clandestine manner, evading customs control. It may be goods on which duty and taxes have been avoided, or it may be goods which are not permitted to be imported or exported. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It has a long and controversial history, probably dating back to the first time at which duty was imposed in any form.
In Britain, smuggling became economically significant at the end of the 18th century The high rates of duty levied on wine and spirits, and other luxury goods coming in from mainland Europe at this time made the clandestine import of such goods and the evasion of the duty a highly profitable venture for impoverished fishermen and seafarers. In certain parts of the country such as Cornwall and East Cleveland, the smuggling industry was for many communities more economically significant than legal activities such as farming and fishing. The principal reason for the high duty was the need for the government to finance a number of extremely expensive wars with France and the United States of America.
Smuggling now is considerably diversified: the smuggling of immigrants, armaments, illegal drugs, as well as the historical staples of smuggling, alcohol and tobacco are widespread throughout the Western world. In many parts of the world, particularly the Gulf of Mexico, the smuggling vessel of choice is the go-fast boat. In addition, many smugglers also fly, either on private airplanes or on regularly scheduled airlines, to traffic their illegal products. A large number of suspected smugglers are caught each year by airport police worldwide. The high level of duty levied on alcohol and tobacco in Britain has led to large-scale smuggling through the Channel Tunnel.
Latterly, as many first-world countries have struggled to contain a rising influx of immigrants, the smuggling of people across national borders has become a lucrative extra-legal activity.
Smuggling has been the subject of many works of literature and a list of these can be found here.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Smuggling."
Synonym: SmugglingSynonym: Contraband. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Illegality | Trover and conversion; smuggling, poaching; simony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Smuggling |
| English words defined with "smuggling": Coast guard, Contrabandism ♦ gunrunning ♦ Preventive service. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "smuggling": BORDER GUARD, border patrol agent ♦ Fair Trade ♦ SMUGGLING KEN. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Smuggling" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (running, smuggling). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Lucy Ricardo caused less havoc when she was smuggling cheese back from Europe! (Passions; writing credit: Jean Chapot; Nelly Kaplan) Do you think we're smuggling dope in the celery? (High Anxiety; writing credit: Mel Brooks; Ron Clark) It's wanted for smuggling 20 million pounds of narcotics into the United States. (Mr. Show; writing credit: Scott Aukerman; Jerry Collins) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Smuggling on the Rio Grande / drawn by P. Frenzeny. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Elbert Hubbard | Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Other researchers are looking at ways to package NGF and other neurotrophic factors with substances that can cross the blood-brain barrier, in effect smuggling these potential treatments into the brain. (references) | |
Business | For statistical purposes, this is considered piecemeal smuggling. (references) | |
Mobile phone handset smuggling has become a serious problem in China. (references) | ||
In recent years, smuggling in China's mobile phone handsets market has been rampant, bringing large amounts of handsets into the market via illegal channels. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | The 1999 Entry, Exit, and Immigration Law provides strict sentencing guidelines for alien smuggling. (references) |
Ghana | Police checkpoints exist nationwide to prevent smuggling, but most are unmanned during daylight hours. (references) | |
Ghana | Security officers man checkpoints nationwide to prevent smuggling, seize illegal weapons, and catch criminals. (references) | |
Economic History | Andorra | As a result, smuggling is commonplace. (references) |
Nigeria | Meanwhile, smuggling activities continue to thrive. (references) | |
Burma | The SPDC continues to exert strict controls on trade, although smuggling in both directions is rampant. (references) | |
Human Rights | Lithuania | Sipavicius spent 10 months in custody before his trial on charges of abusing his powers in a major smuggling case. (references) |
Russia | He was charged with divulging state secrets, the unlawful transfer of dual use technologies, and for smuggling contraband. (references) | |
Russia | Individual rebel field commanders reportedly were responsible for funding their units, and some allegedly resorted to drug smuggling and kidnaping to raise funds. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | Some Moldovan Roma complain of police harassment; however, the authorities claim that many in the Roma community are engaged in smuggling from Russia and other nearby countries. (references) |
Political Economy | Madagascar | The smuggling of vanilla, gold, and precious stones, and cattle rustling continued to be major concerns. (references) |
Afghanistan | Trade consisted mainly of opium, fruits, minerals, gems, and carpets, as well as the smuggling of goods to Pakistan. (references) | |
Trade | Nepal | If the duty is not paid or the goods are not re-exported within six months of entry, action may be taken on a charge of smuggling. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Given the high effective level of taxation on many imported goods, smuggling is, not surprisingly, a serious problem for products such as cigarettes. (references) | |
China | Chinese officials are increasingly aware, however, that such protective measures contribute to endemic economic inefficiencies and encourage smuggling. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | The death penalty may be imposed on anyone convicted of smuggling or selling marijuana, hashish, opium, LSD, or other narcotics. (references) |
Worker Rights | Netherlands | The maximum sentence for alien smuggling is 8 years. (references) |
Mexico | There also have been campaigns to prevent illegal migration and migrant smuggling. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Well, obviously, ladies and gentlemen, it works the other way too, because it seems the liberals in this country are smuggling the politics of personal destruction northward into Canada. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | This enterprise has been marked in a more signal manner by all the objectionable circumstances which characterized the other, and more particularly by the equipment of privateers which have annoyed our commerce, and by smuggling. |
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| "Smuggling" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.23% of the time. "Smuggling" is used about 151 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.23% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 33.77% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Total | 100.00% | 151 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "smuggling": smuggling ring. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "smuggling": anti-smuggling, drug-smuggling. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hiding smuggling | 41 | animal australia smuggling | 4 |
drug smuggling | 40 | immigrant smuggling | 4 |
smuggling | 29 | cigarette smuggling | 4 |
drug smuggling weapon | 16 | smuggling tobacco | 3 |
human smuggling | 15 | diamond smuggling | 3 |
alien smuggling | 6 | human smuggling terrorism | 3 |
gun smuggling | 5 | people smuggling | 2 |
anti business coalition smuggling | 5 | bible smuggling | 2 |
reptile smuggling | 4 | smuggling steroid | 2 |
20 20 granato granato kevin mafia regina smuggling sperm | 4 | drug pic smuggling | 2 |
sevmash smuggling | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "smuggling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kontrabandë (contraband, gunrunning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تهريب (contraband, dealings, racket, running). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | контрабанда (contraband, running, trade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 走私 (smuggle, smuggled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pašování. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | smokkelarij. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tullipetos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fraude douanière, contrebande (smuggled goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schmuggel (contraband), schmuggelnd (bootlegging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λαθρεμπόριο (contraband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "' ב", "ברח" (barring, causing to flee, contraband, driving away, helping to escape, hiding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csempészés (running). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | contrabbando (contraband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 密貿" , 密輸 (contraband trade), 密航 , 密売 (bootlegging, illicit trade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | みつぼうえき, みつばい (bootlegging, illicit trade), みつゆ (contraband trade), みっ"う (prowling about, traveling in secret). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 밀수. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | roie (bolt, burst, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flow, flowing, flying, ladder, race, range, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, sprinting), drogh hraghtey (smuggle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugglingsmay contrabando (contraband, march). (various references) contrabandã (bootlegging, contraband, running). (various references) контрабанда (contraband, fair trade). (various references) krijumčarenje (contraband), švercovanje. (various references) contrabando (contraband). (various references) smuggling (running). (various references) kaçakçılık (contraband, running), kaçırma (abduction, evasion, kidnapping, letting escape, missing). (various references) контрабанда (contraband). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "smuggling": antismuggling. (additional references) | |
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"Smuggling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: smurggling, smurgling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smuggling" (pronounced smu"gling or smu"guling) |
| 4 | -g l i ng | angling, burgling, tangling, toggling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
| 6 | -u" g u l i ng | juggling, struggling. |
| 5 | -g u l i ng | boggling, bugling, bungling, commingling, dangling, giggling, gurgling, haggling, intermingling, jiggling, mangling, mingling, singling, strangling, tingling, waggling, wiggling, wrangling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, bicycling, bottling, bristling, bubbling, bumbling, bundling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, counseling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, cycling, dabbling, dazzling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, gobbling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, guzzling, hassling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, jostling, labeling, leveling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, muscling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, raveling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, sizzling, spiraling, spiralling, squabbling, stapling, stenciling, stumbling, swiveling, tabling, throttling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, warbling, wobbling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-g-i-l-m-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: muggings, slugging. | |
-2 letters: lugging, mugging, muggins. | |
-3 letters: gluing, linums, luging, lungis, muling, musing, muslin, sluing. | |
-4 letters: glims, glugs, iglus, limns, lings, linum, lungi, lungs, miggs, minus, muggs, munis, sling, slung, suing, using. | |
-5 letters: gigs, gins, glim, glug, glum, gnus, guls, gums, guns, iglu, limn, ling, lins, lugs, lums, lung, migg, migs, mils, mugg, mugs, muni. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-g-i-l-m-n-s-u" | |
+4 letters: antismuggling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 75 67 67 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -- ..- --. --. .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01110101 01100111 01100111 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m u g g l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 0075 0067 0067 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537987737378758073 |
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