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Meaning Of Contraband

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.

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