shadow market
noun[C,usually singular]
COMMERCEukusanillegalbusinessactivity:
Thebanonsalesofivorycreatedashadowmarketforfakes.
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In particular, he warned of a futureshadowmarketwhere journal editors might inflate citation counts by requiring spurious references.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theshadowmarketvalue of the 100 million liability from the earlier example will be 81.95 million.
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In other words, do weak, pre-war institutions encourage shadow markets ?
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Nor does she investigate the extent to which shadow markets existed before a conflict.
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