2006-09-08 10:34:08 · 6 answers · asked by doch1 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
As originally used during World War II, it meant the market in buying and selling stolen military supplies, such as clothing, blankets, food, and truck tires. The term had also seen some use in World War I, when it entered English as a translation of the German Schwarzmarkt.
2006-09-08 10:40:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would market there products in the dark alleys or in the dark of night. Because it was illegal so they had to sneak around.
Any thing that isn't straight across the market during day light hours. Is called the black market. Meaning hid from sight.
2006-09-08 10:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It came from a racist You call Webster. Who was an avowed Racists, Many people know him as the one who wrote the Webster dictionary. That a huge per-centage of people use even to -day his ancestors used the word black in every negative way that they could, Webster even invented ways to use the word black in negatives ways ........ Why maybe from what I have read not all the Rosters in his hen house were white........
2006-09-08 11:45:09 · answer #3 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is so called because "black economy" or "black market" affairs are conducted outside the law, and so are necessarily conducted "in the dark", out of the sight of the law.
2006-09-08 10:50:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they all seem right to me
2006-09-08 12:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yup , what they said.
2006-09-08 10:48:02 · answer #6 · answered by darkvale 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋