slush fund
小金库,小费基金,小费,杂费基金
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- : a sum of money used for illicit or corrupt political purposes, as for buying influence.
- : Nautical. a fund from the sale of slush, refuse fat, etc., spent for any small luxuries.
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“Police chiefs just have these slush funds they can do whatever they want with,” Livingstone said.
He said giving the FTC so much money without a federal privacy law in place, could become — quote — “nothing more than a socialist slush fund.”
Your paycheck is not a slush fund for your employer to dip into to keep its books balanced.
Scalise spoke about taxes and government slush funds for a mere 15 minutes, Knight said.
Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
And from there, the letter asked for money for a legal defense fund.
In fact, as attendees noted to The Daily Beast, legislators go to ALEC to find ways to fund their campaigns.
Not to mention the revenue that will be generated by this, which then can be used to fund education and health care.
The presence of a large gold fund was an assurance of the ability to return to specie payments after the close of the war.
From affluence he came to want, and in his old age a fund was raised sufficient to purchase him an annuity of £600 a year.
(d) Excess balances may, at the convenience of each federal reserve bank, remain deposited with the gold settlement fund.
We should raise a goodly sum of money this winter toward the building fund.
For, to do this is to reduce its assets or fund for paying its indebtedness, which the law will not permit to be done.