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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contraband adj : distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes [syn: {bootleg}, {black}, {black-market}, {smuggled}] n : goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
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