smuggle

faire passer en contrebande

Faire passer secrètement des marchandises à travers une frontière sans payer les taxes obligatoires.

En anglais simple : To secretly take goods across a border without paying the required taxes.

• They smuggled cigarettes across the border.
• Customs officers caught him trying to smuggle expensive watches.
• The gang had smuggled tobacco into the country for years.

Comment l'utiliser : smuggle something into somewhere (They smuggled tobacco into the country.); smuggle something across something (He smuggled watches across the border.)

Synonymes : run

Expressions courantes : smuggle cigarettes, smuggle goods, smuggle across borders