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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smuggling
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drug trafficking/smuggling (=the crime of bringing drugs into a country)
▪ The maximum penalty for drug smuggling was 25 years in jail.
drugs/gambling/smuggling etc racket
▪ Police believe he is involved in an international smuggling racket.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ Therefore claims incurred where, for example, a vessel was being used for drug smuggling would not be covered.
▪ He suddenly remembered that Stephen Blufton's information about drug smuggling was due to be put to the test that day.
▪ As for the business with the docks, if that wasn't a case of drug smuggling, Hill was no investigative reporter.
▪ Maurin had already tried to ruin Joseph by helping Cobalt reveal his drug smuggling.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mexico has made efforts to reduce smuggling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Boscastle itself has long been associated with smuggling and witchcraft, and today has a witchcraft museum.
▪ He idly wondered if Joscelyn had returned to his old ways and was engaged in some petty smuggling.
▪ He worked here until 1769, during a period when smuggling was rife.
▪ It appears a smuggling plan went wrong when a lorry driver went on holiday.
▪ Penzance, once a centre of smuggling, is now very much a holiday resort.
▪ There is a strong tradition of smuggling, illicit goods being brought from nearby Flookburgh on the coast.
▪ Therefore claims incurred where, for example, a vessel was being used for drug smuggling would not be covered.
▪ They were so cheap that, even with the cost of smuggling them west, Kurzlinger could make a huge profit.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smuggling

Smuggle \Smug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smuggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Smuggling.] [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. sm?gan to creep. See Smock.]

  1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.

  2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.

Wiktionary
smuggling

n. An act of smuggling. vb. (present participle of smuggle English)

WordNet
smuggling

n. secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due

Wikipedia
Smuggling

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, illegal immigration or illegal emigration, tax evasion, providing contraband to a prison inmate, or the theft of the items being smuggled. Examples of non-financial motivations include bringing banned items past a security checkpoint (such as airline security) or the removal of classified documents from a government or corporate office.

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.

Usage examples of "smuggling".

Moscow official after breaking a crime ring that had been smuggling thousands of tons of illegal ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons from former Soviet factories under the brand names of legal refrigerants.

El Dorado forces using metal weapons, so some of the smuggling is getting through.

There was a report of a guard under suspension, accused of smuggling a case of Downer wine into Q.

Rumor has it that this outfit controls huge chunks of coca production in Peru, cocaine manufacture in Colombia, smuggling in the Guajira, and distribution in the United States.

CHAPTER II YEAR 1761 It was in this year that the great smuggling trade corrupted all the west coast, especially the laigh lands about the Troon and the Loans.

After Mrs Malcolm, by the settlement of Captain Macadam, had given up her dealing, two maiden women, that were sisters, Betty and Janet Pawkie, came in among us from Ayr, where they had friends in league with some of the laigh land folk, that carried on the contraband with the Isle of Man, which was the very eye of the smuggling.

His experience on the waterfronts had given him an expertise in smuggling, extortion and money laundering, and these were the areas in which he made his money, first in Fuzhou then in Hong Kong and expanding throughout China and the Far East.

Smuggling in an unknown life-form, something that seemed to have psychological effects on third parties, something that made mockets take their shape .

France, she had the less objection to it, inasmuch as the fear that the smuggling would be sooner or later discovered, and that ruin might fall upon Netherstock, was ever present in her mind, and in that of her elder sister.

Of all the manifold ills in the train of smuggling, surely the excisemen are the worst, and the setting of this rabiator over us was a severe judgment for our sins.

We found rather a roughish lot assembled, and imagined the smuggling element to preponderate over the religious, but nothing could be better than the way in which they treated us.

Although Iran helped cut down on the smuggling through the Persian Gulf, the Emirate of Dubayy in the UAE shrugged off pressure both from the United States and from its federal government in Abu Dhabi and routinely accepted huge cargoes of smuggled Iraqi oil.

In an ironic quirk of fate, Soe who had been placed in Berlin because of the criminal actions of another-was put in charge of a smuggling scheme far greater than the one that had gotten him posted to Germany in the first place.

Berlitz was the other half of the smuggling combination of Spad Ames and Waldo Berlitz.

It was pretty obvious that the dockmaster either knew or suspected that Takil had smuggling affiliations.