trafficker

3 definitions • 5 examples

a person who trades in illegal goods, especially drugs, or who buys or sells people or makes money from the work people are forced to do, such as sex work:

drug traffickers

an international arms trafficker

human/people traffickers

someone who is involved in illegal trade:

ivory traffickers

a person who buys and sells goods or people illegally:

Last year's crop earned Afghan opium farmers and traffickers $2.3 billion.