Illegal or prohibited traffic., Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden., A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war., Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade., To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle., To declare prohibited; to forbid.
If Contraband is used with a capital C, it refers to former slaves who found their way to union territory and, following the Emancipation Proclamation, were then free.
A synonym for contraband is illegal. An antonym for contraband is legal.
Contraband..."goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by lawbootleg: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn"
Contraband consists of materials which may be confiscated and used by the enemy. In the Civil War, slaves freed by the Union troops, since they belonged to the Confederates, could also be taken as Contraband. Many of the freed slaves later volunteered for military service.
Contraband Spain was created in 1956.
Contraband was released on 01/13/2012.
The Production Budget for Contraband was $25,000,000.
Contraband is an album by Velvet Revolver.
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Contraband can be used as either a noun or an adjective (a word that describes a noun). I will give an example of each:Noun - The officer found contraband in the mobster's trunk.Adj - The DVDs were contraband because they were illegally smuggled into Canada.
Contraband grossed $66,528,000 in the domestic market.
Contraband - Velvet Revolver album - was created in 2003-12.