illicit

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Illicit drugs: major illicit producer of synthetic drugs for the international market; minor transshipment point for Asian and Latin American illicit drugs to Western Europe

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  1. adjective Not sanctioned by custom or law; unlawful.
  2. adjective Linguistics Improperly formed; ungrammatical.

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  • The trend reflects a fall in the prices offered to farmers for their illicit crops and a stable or declining demand in the West. —  Top stories from Times Online
  • And for students who are found with illicit or questionable material on their phones, the phone will be turned over to law enforcement. —  The Times-Journal: News
  • Published estimates of Burma's foreign trade (particularly on the import side) are greatly understated because of the large volume of off-book, black-market, illicit, and unrecorded border trade.
  • Control of infected PCs is valuable on the black market, since the machines can be rented out, from one group of bad guys to another, and act as a kind of illicit supercomputer, sending spam, scanning Web sites for security holes, or participating in network attacks. —  WSBTV.com - Local News
  • In over 250 network audits by PixAlert software, all but 4 audits uncovered illicit or inappropriate images. —  Releases feed from RealWire
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin illicitus : in-, not; see in-1 + licitus, lawful; see licit.

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  1. = French illicite = Spanish ilícito = Portuguese illicito = Italian illicito, illecito, from Latin illicitus, inlicitus, not allowed, forbidden, from in- privative + licitus, allowed, past participle of licere, be permitted or allowed: see license.
 

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