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Maybe "smuggled" is not British English? Or it's just slang?
What's the difference: contraband / smuggled ?
Maybe "smuggled" is not British English? Or it's just slang?
In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.
Contraband just means smuggled goods.
Smuggled is a verbal adjective (or simply the verb past tense), from the verb to smuggle, to import or export illegally, wheres contraband is a noun: goods which have been imported or exported illegally.
You can smuggle things that aren't contraband, such as people (at least it would be a fairly old-fashioned to describe smuggled people as contraband), but off the top of my head I can't think of any way something can be contraband without having been smuggled.
I see... Thank you.
By the way, Lingvo Online says that "contraband" is a noun and an adjective too:
прил.
1) контрабандный
contraband goods — контрабандные товары
contraband trade — торговля контрабандными товарами
2) запрещенный, запретный, незаконный, противозаконный; несанкционированный
In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.
Yes, it is also an adjective.Originally Posted by Оля
Contraband simply means something that is banned or illegal.
Smuggled means something has been transported (usually into a country) illegally.
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NOUN: Don't let them see you with that contraband!
ADJECTIVE: Don't let them see you with those contraband cigarettes!
Ты пытаешься объяснить нам, что такое существительное и прилагательное?
In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.
Нет, как используется слово «кантрабэнд».
«И всё, что сейчас происходит внутре — тоже является частью вселенной».
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