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smuggling

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

An act of something being smuggled.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

present participle and gerund of smuggle

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: importing, importation

Narrower terms: gunrunning

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: kontrabandë — an act of something being smuggled
  • Arabic: تَهْرِيب (tahrīb) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Armenian: մաքսանենգություն (makʻsanengutʻyun) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Azerbaijani: qaçaqmalçılıq — an act of something being smuggled
  • Belarusian: кантраба́нда (kantrabánda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Bulgarian: контраба́нда (kontrabánda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Chinese Cantonese: 走私 (zau2 si1) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Chinese Mandarin: 走私 (zǒusī) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Czech: pašeráctví — an act of something being smuggled
  • Danish: smugling — an act of something being smuggled
  • Danish: smugleri — an act of something being smuggled
  • Dutch: smokkel — an act of something being smuggled
  • Esperanto: kontrabando — an act of something being smuggled
  • Estonian: salakaubavedu — an act of something being smuggled
  • Finnish: salakuljetus — an act of something being smuggled
  • French: trafique — an act of something being smuggled
  • Galician: contrabando — an act of something being smuggled
  • Georgian: კონტრაბანდა (ḳonṭrabanda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • German: Schmuggel — an act of something being smuggled
  • Greek: λαθρεμπόριο (lathrempório) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Hindi: तस्करी (taskarī) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Hungarian: csempészet — an act of something being smuggled
  • Icelandic: smygl — an act of something being smuggled
  • Indonesian: penyeludupan — an act of something being smuggled
  • Interlingua: contrabando — an act of something being smuggled
  • Italian: contrabbando — an act of something being smuggled
  • Japanese: 密輸 (mitsuyu) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Japanese: 密航 (mikkō) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Kazakh: контрабанда (kontrabanda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Korean: 밀수 (milsu) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Korean: 밀항 (milhang) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Kyrgyz: контрабанда (kontrabanda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Latin: contrabannum — an act of something being smuggled
  • Latvian: kontrabanda — an act of something being smuggled
  • Lithuanian: kontrabanda — an act of something being smuggled
  • Macedonian: криумчарење (kriumčarenje) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Macedonian: шверцање (švercanje) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Malay: penyeludupan — an act of something being smuggled
  • Neapolitan: cuntrabbando — an act of something being smuggled
  • Norman: fraude — an act of something being smuggled
  • Norwegian Bokmål: smugling — an act of something being smuggled
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: smugling — an act of something being smuggled
  • Persian: قاچاق (qâčâq) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Polish: przemyt — an act of something being smuggled
  • Polish: kontrabanda — an act of something being smuggled
  • Polish: szmugiel — an act of something being smuggled
  • Polish: szmuglerka — an act of something being smuggled
  • Portuguese: contrabando — an act of something being smuggled
  • Romanian: contrabandă — an act of something being smuggled
  • Russian: контраба́нда (kontrabánda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Serbo-Croatian: кријумча́рење — an act of something being smuggled
  • Serbo-Croatian: krijumčárenje — an act of something being smuggled
  • Sikkimese: སྐོག་ཚོང (skog tshong) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Slovak: pašovanie — an act of something being smuggled
  • Slovak: pašeráctvo — an act of something being smuggled
  • Slovene: tihotapljenje — an act of something being smuggled
  • Spanish: contrabando — an act of something being smuggled
  • Spanish: matute — an act of something being smuggled
  • Spanish: chancuco — an act of something being smuggled
  • Spanish: falluca — an act of something being smuggled
  • Spanish: fayuca — an act of something being smuggled
  • Spanish: estraperlo — an act of something being smuggled
  • Spanish: meteduría — an act of something being smuggled
  • Swedish: smuggling — an act of something being smuggled
  • Tajik: қочоқ (qočoq) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Tajik: қочоқчигӣ (qočoqčigi) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Tajik: контрабанда (kontrabanda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Tatar: контрабанда (qontrabanda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Thai: การลักลอบ (gaan-lák-lɔ̂ɔp) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Turkish: kaçakçılık — an act of something being smuggled
  • Ukrainian: контраба́нда (kontrabánda) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Urdu: قاچاق (qācāq) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Uyghur: ئەتكەسچىلىك (etkeschilik) — an act of something being smuggled
  • Uzbek: kontrabanda — an act of something being smuggled
  • Vietnamese: buôn lậu — an act of something being smuggled
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