trafficker

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Related topics: Crime, Trade

traf·fick·er /ˈtræfɪkə $ -ər/ noun [countableC]

1. SCCBBTsomeone who buys and sells illegal goods, especially drugs 做非法买卖的人〔尤指毒品贩子〕

2. someone who takes people to another country and forces them to work 人贩子

Examples from the Corpus

trafficker• The blast came three months after the start of a determined government offensive against the country's cocaine traffickers.• Shorter prison terms would be considered for traffickers who acknowledged their crimes, identified accomplices and turned over their assets.• But without any national system, gun traffickers continue to make huge purchases in certain states for sale in illegal markets everywhere.• Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.• He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok.• In narcocorridos, the trafficker prevails, and crime pays.

From Longman Business Dictionary

traffickertraf·fick·er /ˈtræfɪkə-ər/ noun [countableC]

someone who buys and sells illegal goods

international traffickers in stolen art

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