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- DictionarySmuggling/ˈsməɡ(ə)liNG/
noun
- 1. the illegal movement of goods into or out of a country: "cocaine smuggling has increased alarmingly"
1. : to import or export secretly contrary to the law and especially without paying duties imposed by law. 2. : to convey or introduce surreptitiously. intransitive verb. : to import or export something in violation of the customs laws. Examples of smuggle in a Sentence. He was arrested for smuggling drugs into the country.
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.
the act or process of taking things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally: The murdered man is thought to have been involved in drug smuggling. Nine people are in custody in the Netherlands charged with people smuggling. See. smuggle. Fewer examples. The seizure represented a breakthrough in the battle against arms smuggling.
noun [ U ] uk / ˈsmʌɡlɪŋ / us. Add to word list. LAW. the crime of taking goods or people into or out of a country illegally: drug / human / tobacco smuggling. a smuggling organization / operation / ring. A major trend in the smuggling of intellectual property these days is microchips.
Smuggling, conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of goods to evade customs duties or import or export restrictions. Smuggling flourishes wherever there are high-revenue duties (e.g., on tea, spirits, and silks in 18th-century England, coffee in many European.
to take things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally: She was caught trying to smuggle 26 kilos of heroin out of/into the country. They managed to smuggle a video of the captive journalists out of the prison. Fewer examples. All four men deny trying to smuggle drugs.
verb (used with object) , smug·gled, smug·gling. to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty. to bring, take, put, etc., surreptitiously: She smuggled the gun into the jail inside a cake.
