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Definition: Slush Fund |
Slush FundNoun1. A fund for buying votes or bribing public officials. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Language | Translations for "slush fund"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fond i fshehtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مال الترضية, مال الرشوة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | korupèní fond. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fonds secrets, caisse noire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קרן חשאית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pártkassza (slush-fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fondi neri (slush funds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ushslay undfay verba para suborno. (various references) фонд для подкупа (slush funds). (various references) novac za troškarenje, novac za podmićivanje. (various references) fondos para sobornar, caja (barrel, body, box, case, cash, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's stand, casing, checkbox, checkout, chest, container, crate, cushion, drawer, fund, housing, jug, money box, money-box, pay office, paydesk, shaft, shell, take, till, vessel, well). (various references) rüşvet vermek için toplanan para, rüşvet fonu. (various references) quỹ bán mỡ thừa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This, colloquially, has come to mean an auxiliary or reserve fund into which money may be put. However, it especially has meaning within a context of corrupt (including but not limited to) political dealings - this could be for example by governments or other bodies/individuals. These funds can have a particular elements of illegality, illegitimacy, or secrecy about them with regards to the use of this money; as well as the details of, or nature surrounding, the means that acquired it.
As such, political dealings with slush funds, tend to bring suspicions of quid pro quo (buying political favors), and tend to be viewed on the surface as corrupt and subversive of the democratic process. Richard Nixon, as an example has a scandal in 1952 involving what was called a "slush fund", for which he apologized on television, and was popularly acquitted.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slush fund."
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-h-l-n-s-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: fundus. | |
-4 letters: flush, funds, lusus, shuln, shuls, shuns, slush, sulus. | |
-5 letters: duns, flus, fuds, fund, funs, fuss, huns, lush, shul, shun, suds, sulu, suns, ulus. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 75 73 68 46 75 6E 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101000 00100000 01000110 01110101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l u s h   F u n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0075 0073 0068 0046 0075 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378878574240878070 |
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