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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
black economy
noun
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▪ Boosts the black economy, I suppose.
▪ If taxes rise simultaneously there is the prospect of a major disincentive effect on output or of growth in the black economy.
▪ It leads to the stimulation of a privately run black economy as its crucial lubricant. 5.
▪ Most women are forced through economic necessity to work in part-time low-paid jobs with quite a large number in the black economy.
▪ New careers in alternative economies, in the black economy and in voluntary work will also be studied.
▪ Publicly suppressed since the 1920s, these qualities have only survived through the black economy, or through private family oral traditions.
▪ The black economy refers to those unrecorded economic transactions conducted on a cash basis with a view to illegal evasion of tax.
▪ The existence of a black economy is, of course, not confined to the United Kingdom.
Wiktionary
black economy

n. (context economics English) A sector of a nation's economy that is illegally undocumented due to cash payments or tax avoidance

WordNet
black economy

n. a hidden sector of the economy where private cash transactions go unreported; "no one knows how large the black economy really is"