slush money

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• slush money — slush fund or slush money noun (orig US) A fund of money used, usu corruptly, in political campaigning and propaganda, bribery, undeclared commissions, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑slush …   Useful english dictionary

• slush money — /ˈslʌʃ mʌni/ (say slush munee) noun money from a slush fund …  

• Slush fund — is a colloquial term which has come to mean an auxiliary monetary account or a reserve fund. However, the term has special meaning within a context of corrupt (including but not limited to) political dealings by governments, large corporations or …   Wikipedia

• slush fund — ➔ fund1 * * * slush fund UK US noun [C] FINANCE ► money that is kept by a business or other organization for illegal purposes: »The CEO treated this money as his own personal slush fund and used it to evade taxes. »He was convicted of setting up… …   Financial and business terms

• slush — 1640s, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (Cf. Norw. and Swed. slask slushy ground; obsolete Dan. slus sleet ), all probably imitative of the sound of sloshing. Slush fund is first attested 1839, from an earlier sense of slush refuse fat (1756);… …   Etymology dictionary

• slush fund — ► NOUN ▪ a reserve of money used for illicit purposes, especially political bribery. ORIGIN originally nautical slang denoting money collected to buy luxuries, from the sale of watery food known as slush …   English terms dictionary

• slush fund — slush funds N COUNT A slush fund is a sum of money collected to pay for an illegal activity, especially in politics or business. He s accused of misusing $17.5 million from a secret government slush fund …   English dictionary

• slush fund — slush ,fund noun count an amount of money that an organization, business, or political party uses for illegal purposes a. an amount of money kept by a business for things it needs to buy unexpectedly …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• slush fund — index hush money Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• slush fund — n an amount of money kept for dishonest purposes, especially in politics …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• slush fund — slush′ fund n. 1) bus a sum of money used for illicit political purposes, as for buying influence 2) navig. a fund for a ship s crew, formerly raised from the sale of galley waste, for the purchase of small luxuries …   From formal English to slang