verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drug trafficking/smuggling (= the crime of bringing drugs into a country )
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The maximum penalty for drug smuggling was 25 years in jail.
drugs/gambling/smuggling etc racket
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Police believe he is involved in an international smuggling racket.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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Export and import licences are forged, people paid off and endangered species or their products smuggled in .
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Finally, she smoked marijuana smuggled in by another patient, and she was put on the restricted floor.
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A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons, which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to.
out
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They say the most likely way the keys were smuggled out was by a prison warder rather than an inmate to a visitor.
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An employee seeking to smuggle out documents can simply place them in a coat pocket to avoid detection.
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He thought it a punishment for the note the young cleric had tried to smuggle out via De Gaulle.
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Then in 1986, another prisoner bribed a guard to smuggle out a note.
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The only communication between him and his family had been letters smuggled out .
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Maria had brought out no money, but she had smuggled out some of her jewels.
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Recently, an anonymous note, clearly composed from a dialogue between a prisoner and a sympathetic guard, was smuggled out .
■ NOUN
cigarette
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Imperial Tobacco pushed up profits by 15 % in the six months to March 25 despite increased cigarette smuggling .
country
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Thousands of objects were smuggled out of the country .
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Western books are smuggled into the country and duplicated.
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It is believed the haul has already been smuggled out of the country .
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It's estimated that half a million pounds worth have been smuggled out of the country already this year.
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Literally billions have been smuggled out of Third World countries to Western banks, often in suitcases.
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Video films are also compact enough to be smuggled into the country without drawing the attention of customs officers.
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They need to be smuggled out of the country .
drug
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He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages.
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The Arellanos have drug smuggling in their family tree.
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It ended an era born from drug smuggling .
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He was accused of providing airstrips for drug smuggling and receiving $ 350 million for his efforts.
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Mohibullah was arrested at Heathrow after drugs were found smuggled in his suitcase.
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His aggressiveness paid off, as Kerry was finding significant evidence of contra-connected drug smuggling .
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As well as buying drugs , gangs are smuggling money abroad to have it laundered.
■ VERB
involve
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While visiting her sister on the island of Corfu, Lucy Waring innocently finds herself involved in a smuggling ring.
try
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He thought it a punishment for the note the young cleric had tried to smuggle out via De Gaulle.
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Neither of them was trying to smuggle anything.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'll smuggle you in through the back door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the cave Ogof Tobacco bears witness to the area's smuggling past.
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He leaned in to talk and smuggle her a cigarette.
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He thought it a punishment for the note the young cleric had tried to smuggle out via De Gaulle.
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I smuggled a copy out when I left because I thought it was so funny.
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If this involves smuggling something of an avant-garde sensibility into the theorization of television, so be it.
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Meanwhile, smuggling fees have tripled in some cases to $ 1, 000.