Contraband is valid Scrabble Word

Is contraband a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
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Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTRABAND in dictionary:

VERB:

To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
To declare prohibited; to forbid.

NOUN:

illegal or prohibited traffic in goods
goods that have been imported or exported illegally
trade in smuggled goods
goods forbidden to be supplied by neutrals to those engaged in war.
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.
goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law

ADJECTIVE:

imported or exported illegally, either in defiance of a total ban or without payment of duty
relating to traffic in illegal goods
Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
distributed or sold illicitly

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

illegal or prohibited traffic in goods; smuggling

Words related to CONTRABAND

Words that contain CONTRABAND

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How to use CONTRABAND in a sentence

Upon being tried and convicted of carrying contraband of war, he was sentenced to give forthwith his reasons why J.
It dealt with the manner in which American ships suspected of carrying contraband of war had been held up on the high seas and sent into British ports for examination.
These books, however, not being contraband, were immediately returned to her, as was an edition of Baffo, belonging to my other fellow traveller, returned to him.
In its treatment of the subject of contraband, the treaty took positions in accord with the international law then received, but in one respect it made a distinct advance.
Because of its convenience as a contraband article, there are no reliable figures of the tobacco output.
Arms and gunpowder are no longer considered contraband.
He accuses the latter of various illegal and crafty acts, among them sending contraband gold and jewels to Mexico.
Reaching Broadway they hurried ahead intending to find La Croix and arrest him with contraband diamonds in his possession.
As to contraband of war Great Britain put such a broad interpretation upon the term as to include nearly every important article of commerce.
It suffices for the present occasion, to say, that corn, flour, and meal are not of the class of contraband, and consequently remain articles of free commerce.

We believe the practice of seizing what is called contraband of war, is an abusive practice, not founded in natural right.
I know the merchants of these ports will make a clamor, because the franchise covers their contraband with all the world.
It does not seem a natural consequence, then, that contraband should be increased by reducing its gain nearly one half.
One young chap whose keenness ran away with his judgment, brought me a stack of copy one night, almost every word of which was contraband.
Now he was going back to spoil his plans for making money by rustling American stock and sending contraband goods across the line.
The settlement of the Windward and Leeward Islands and the conquest of Jamaica had given a new impetus to contraband trade.
To put an effective restraint, moreover, upon this contraband trade was impossible on either side.
Times innumerable have I assured Balkan people of all races that the Balkan Committee did not run contraband rifles, but they have never believed it.
She must be hailed, stopped, and boarded to make sure she is not carrying cotton or rubber, or other contraband of war intended for Germany.
The same principle was maintained in the bill directed against the contraband trade in spirits.
There I found horses ready caparisoned, and a faithful contraband to guide me on my way.
The vexed questions of privateers, prizes, and contraband of war were also settled and determined.
If anything could induce me to enter seriously into the contraband, it would be such treatment.
However, 1,500 African slaves entered here at different times during those seventeen years, without reckoning the large numbers that were introduced as contraband.
But it seems that the primary question was not one of contraband.
Nevertheless the search was continued by the Japanese authorities in the hope of finding contraband.
Note on Continuous Voyages and Contraband of War by J.
Her design on the notorious dealer in contraband was now too evident to admit of doubt.
There were schooners that used to make the run down from the Canadian shore around the Straits carrying contraband goods in war time.
Articles which a neutral nation is not allowed to carry to an enemy, are called contraband goods.

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