gray market
noun
: a market employing irregular but not illegal methods
especially
: a market that legally circumvents authorized channels of distribution to sell goods at prices lower than those intended by the manufacturer
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In 2022, the company estimated that the IT gray market was costing the Cisco channel $1.2 billion per year.
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Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
But there are many, many more gray market smoke shops.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
When employment failed to keep up with population growth, the region found itself with a large pool of underemployed labor—engaged seasonally on the farm, working in the gray market, or tending to small private plots on collective farms.
—Artemy Kalinovsky, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2018
Because of poor distribution and a lack of aid staff, most of the aid in northern Gaza can only be purchased on the gray market at inflated prices.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2024
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Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
But there are many, many more gray market smoke shops.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
When employment failed to keep up with population growth, the region found itself with a large pool of underemployed labor—engaged seasonally on the farm, working in the gray market, or tending to small private plots on collective farms.
—Artemy Kalinovsky, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2018
Because of poor distribution and a lack of aid staff, most of the aid in northern Gaza can only be purchased on the gray market at inflated prices.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2024
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“Gray market.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gray%20market. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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