What does Smuggle mean?
Definitions for Smuggle
ˈsmʌg əlsmug·gle
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Princeton's WordNet
smuggleverb
import or export without paying customs duties
"She smuggled cigarettes across the border"
Wiktionary
smuggleverb
To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
smuggleverb
To bring in surreptitiously
smuggleverb
To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To SMUGGLEverb
To import or export goods without paying the customs.
Etymology: smockelen, Dutch.
Wikipedia
Smuggle
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. There are various motivations to smuggle. These include the participation in illegal trade, such as in the drug trade, illegal weapons trade, prostitution, human trafficking, kidnapping, exotic wildlife trade, art theft, heists, chop shops, illegal immigration or illegal emigration, tax evasion, import/export restrictions, providing contraband to prison inmates, or the theft of the items being smuggled. Smuggling is a common theme in literature, from Bizet's opera Carmen to the James Bond spy books (and later films) Diamonds Are Forever and Goldfinger.
ChatGPT
smuggle
To smuggle is to transport or import goods or persons secretly, illegally, or by illicit methods, often across international borders, to avoid taxes, import/export restrictions, or other governmental regulations.
Webster Dictionary
Smuggleverb
to import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace
Smuggleverb
fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely
Smuggleverb
to import or export in violation of the customs laws
Etymology: [Of Low German or Scand. origin; cf. LG. smuggeln, D. smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, AS. smgan to creep. See Smock.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Smuggle
smug′l, v.t. to import or export without paying the legal duty: to convey secretly.—ns. Smugg′ler, one who smuggles: a vessel used in smuggling; Smugg′ling, defrauding the government of revenue by the evasion of custom-duties or excise-taxes. [Low Ger. smuggeln, cog. with Ger. schmuggeln; Dut. smuigen, to eat secretly.]
Smuggle
smug′l, v.t. to fondle, cuddle.
Anagrams for Smuggle »
muggles
Muggles
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Smuggle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Smuggle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Smuggle in a Sentence
We reject outright the premise that the Turkish Government is in league with ISIL to smuggle oil across its borders, and we frankly see no evidence – none – to support such an accusation.
The aim was to smuggle oil illegally from Iran to Syria.
Only if migrants know they will never succeed and never reach Europe will they stop coming, they will not drown, and the criminals who smuggle them in those boats will not get their money any more.
At least 100 drivers were killed trying to smuggle crude into Syria. Drivers are refusing to go because the smuggling route between Mosul and Syria has became a death trap.
And numbers could rise further, from confusion over recent court orders and as smuggle continue to peddle misinformation to make a profit: we are prepared.
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- smokkelAfrikaans
- هربArabic
- pašovatCzech
- schmuggelnGerman
- pasar, contrabandear, contrabandoSpanish
- salakaubana vedamaEstonian
- salakuljettaaFinnish
- passer en contrebandeFrench
- csempészikHungarian
- contrabbandareItalian
- 密輸Japanese
- шверцува, криумчариMacedonian
- smokkelenDutch
- smugleNorwegian
- contrabandearPortuguese
- провозить контрабандойRussian
- krijumčaritiSerbo-Croatian
- kunyataSouthern Sotho
- smugglaSwedish
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