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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contraband \Con"tra*band\, n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict.]
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Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures.
--Burke. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
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A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war. [U.S.]
Contraband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent.
--Wharton.
Contraband \Con"tra*band\, a. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure,
with the fair trade.
--Burke.
Contraband \Con"tra*band\, v. t.
To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. [Obs.]
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To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.]
The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands.
--Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "smuggling;" 1590s, "smuggled goods;" from Middle French contrebande "a smuggling," from older Italian contrabando (modern contrabbando) "unlawful dealing," from Latin contra "against" (see contra) + Medieval Latin bannum, from Frankish *ban "a command" or some other Germanic source (see ban (v.)).
Wiktionary
prohibited from being traded n. 1 (context uncountable English) any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess 2 (context uncountable English) goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods 3 (context countable US historical English) A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces. v
1 (context obsolete English) To import illegally; to smuggle. 2 (context obsolete English) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
WordNet
adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, smuggled]
n. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
Wikipedia
The word contraband, reported in English since 1529, from Medieval French contrebande "a smuggling," denotes any item that, relating to its nature, is illegal to be possessed or sold.
Used for goods that by their nature, such as too dangerous or offensive in the eyes of the legislator (termed contraband in se), are forbidden. For so-called derivative contraband, goods that may normally be owned but are liable to be seized because they were used in committing an unlawful act and hence begot illegally:
The word is also used as an adjective, again meaning 'distributed or sold illicitly'.Contraband is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Velvet Revolver, released on June 8, 2004 by RCA Records. A commercial success, Contraband debuted at number one on the American Billboard 200 chart and was certified double platinum by the RIAA.
Contraband is an album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music).
For the USA, the same recordings were issued under the album title Mad Love the following year (1977). This USA version also had different cover art and song sequence. Additionally the song "Faded Jeans" was omitted and replaced with the track "I Need Love".
Contraband refers to goods which are illegal to possess or trade.
Contraband may also refer to:
Contraband is a 1980 poliziotteschi film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film is set in Naples, where Luca Di Angelo ( Fabio Testi) and his brother Michele use speedboats to smuggle cigarettes, and find themselves between two contraband bosses after they lose a load of cigarettes.
The film's story was changed to include additional scenes of violence and to better pace the plot. On the second week of a ten week shooting schedule, the production exhausted its budget and received funding from real life smugglers in Naples. The smugglers also made changes to the plot and title of the film .
Contraband is a progressive big band that formed in the 1980s led by trombonist Willem van Manen, recording exclusively for the BVHaast record label. The ensemble often combines free improvisation with swing. Band members include clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann and trombonist Chris Abelen, among others.[]
Contraband (1940) is a wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which reunited stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson after their earlier appearance in The Spy in Black the previous year. On this occasion, Veidt plays a hero, something he did not do very often, and there is also an early (uncredited) performance by Leo Genn.
The title of the film in the United States was Blackout. Powell writes in his autobiography, A Life in Movies, as saying that the U.S. renaming was a better title and he wished he had thought of it.
Contraband was a term commonly used in the United States military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain escaped slaves or those who affiliated with Union forces. The Army (and the United States Congress) determined that the US would not return escaped slaves who went to Union lines and classified them as contraband. They used many as laborers to support Union efforts and soon began to pay them wages. The former slaves set up camps near Union forces, and the Army helped support and educate both adults and children among the refugees. Thousands of men from these camps enlisted in the United States Colored Troops when recruitment started in 1863. At war's end, more than 100 contraband camps existed in the South, including the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island, where 3500 former slaves worked to develop a self-sufficient community.
Contraband was a short-lived supergroup/ side project that included members of several famous rock bands from the 1980s, such as Shark Island, Michael Schenker Group, Ratt, L.A. Guns, and Vixen.
Contraband came to be after a Vixen and Ratt unplugged session on MTV.
The band released only one self-titled album in 1991 which received lukewarm reviews. The album was a commercial failure and the band disbanded shortly after, while touring with Ratt. The song "Loud Guitars, Fast Cars, and Wild, Wild Livin'" was included in the movie If Looks Could Kill soundtrack. In the US, the album charted at number 187. Their cover version of " All the Way from Memphis" appeared on the UK record chart in July 1991.
Contraband is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian urban music duo Madcon. It was released on November 17, 2010. It peaked at number two on the Norwegian Albums Chart, becoming the group's highest-charting album. The album was preceded by the Element-produced lead single, " Glow" which became a top 20-hit in nine countries.
Contraband, a collection of artists led by director/ choreographer Sara Shelton Mann, was a dance-based, live performance ensemble, working together from 1985 to the mid ‘90s. Based mainly in San Francisco, the group became known for its lively, electrifying performances, often politically charged and community-engaging. By utilizing dance, music, set, text/spoken word, and site-specific work, Contraband came to develop a cross-disciplinary performance aesthetic, as well as approach to dance and dance training, that would have a profound influence on Bay Area dance, performance art, and culture, as well as performance practice abroad.
Emerging with the 1985 work Evol, the group went on to combine contemporary dance with contact improvisation, live music, ritual, activism, innovative set design, and work with experiential states (see essential states), developing a more expressionistic approach to dance and theater on the West Coast. Many members have continued on to further professional careers in art, music, dance, and circus. Members include director Sara Shelton Mann with Lauren Elder, Keith Hennessy (Circo Zero Performance), Jess Curtis (Jess Curtis/Gravity), Norman Rutherford, Rinde Eckert, Kim Epifano (Epiphany Productions), Jules Beckman (libertivore, Collectif AOC), Elaine Buckholtz, Nina Hart, Brenda Munnell, Kathleen Hermesdorf (La Alternativa), Brook Klehm, Julie Kane, Shannon McMurchy (McGuire), and Peter Kadyk. The company dissolved in the mid-90s due to financial concerns.
Contraband is a 2012 American action crime thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and J. K. Simmons. The film is a remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam which Baltasar Kormákur starred in. It was released on January 13, 2012 in the United States by Universal Pictures.
Contraband is a lost 1925 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Alan Crosland directed and Lois Wilson stars. The film is taken from a novel, Contraband, by Charles Buddington Kelland. The last film directed by Alan Crosland the cooperation with distributor Paramount Pictures.
Contraband in coal mines means items which not allowed to be taken underground in a coal mine because if there is firedamp about they may start a fire or explosion. This includes: matches, tobacco and other smoking materials, anything that may cause sparks, anything with electric components except what has been safety-approved. They have to be declared before going down and left there, and collected after coming out of the mine.
Usage examples of "contraband".
The modern coastguardmen never expect to find such an animal as a smuggler: all contraband business is done by dint of craft and not by daring.
The gates themselves enforce this, even to assuring that no contraband passes within a vagina.
Generals commanding military districts, and commandants of military posts and detachments, and officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats, will give safe conduct to persons and products, merchandise, and other articles duly authorized as aforesaid, and not contraband of war, or prohibited by order of the War Department, or of the order of such generals commanding, or other duly authorized military or naval officer, made in pursuance hereof, and all persons hindering or preventing such safe conduct of persons or property will, be deemed guilty of a military offense and punished accordingly.
SIR:--Certain matters have come to my notice, and considered by me, which induce me to believe that it will conduce to the public interest for you to add to the general instructions given to our naval commanders in relation to contraband trade propositions substantially as follows, to wit: First.
Graaff charged that the Netherlands had more to complain of in British conduct than the other way around, and reminded the committee that two Dutch merchant ships had been seized for alleged contraband and should be released with their cargoes and indemnity paid for costs and damages.
The captains of their armed vessels, known by the name of guarda-costas, had made a practice of boarding and plundering British ships, on pretence of searching for contraband commodities, on which occasions they had behaved with the utmost insolence, cruelty, and rapine.
Just as you told me, it relates how the government agents, having tried in vain to get a clew to the smugglers, came to the conclusion that they must be using airships to slip contraband goods over the border at night.
The Resolution also demanded that all member states deny overflight to such aircraft unless they were authorized by the Security Council or landed and were searched to ensure that there was no contraband on board.
It was a fine balance, keeping the tax at a level that the merchants could stomach, and allowing enough contraband through lest the chokehold turn to strangulation and travel between Darujhistan and Pale dried up entirely.
Hogg had a confused image of the Moorish Empire: dirty men in robes, kasbahs without modern sanitation, heartening smells of things the sun had got at, muezzins, cockfights, shady men in unshaven hiding, the waves slapping naughty naughty at boats full of contraband goods.
I heard footsteps approaching, and went out, closing the door behind me, and begging them to excuse my not asking them in, as there was a contraband commodity in my room.
For my own part, I wish certain rhymes could be declared contraband of written or printed language.
Or would you rather take the trip to Carbuncle with us, and have your plantation electronically searched for contraband?
He turned everything upside down, on the pretext that he was in search of a portmanteau full of salt--a highly contraband article.
It seems that--they suggest--baley-running and contraband travel the same routes and that we are colluding in all this.