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MARCHE BLANC [1 record]

Record 1 1994-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

Legal or officially sanctioned trade in ration coupons, etc., to discourage illegal transactions or the emergence of a black market.

OBS

This is a revival in 1972, of a term used in the 1940's in the sense of the legal market in currencies existing at that time in Europe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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