slush fund

英语

词源

原指水手贩卖slush (“一种油脂混合物”)得到的钱。

名词

slush fund (複數 slush funds)

1. (金融) 非法资金，行贿基金

   He is said to have used his party’s slush fund to buy votes in the election.

   据称，他用自己政党的非法资金来在选举中买票。

   • 2008年9月28日, Illiad [pen name; J. D. Frazer], “The Large Hadron Collider Game”, 出自 Userfriendly.org‎^[1]，於2019-05-07歸檔自原頁面:

     7: CERN bestows slush fund on the LHC. Take all pennies from the CERN space.

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   • 2017, Jason Hickel, “The Tax Evaders”, 出自 The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:

     To do this, [the Lord Mayor] has at his disposal a multibillion-pound slush fund for use in lobbying the UK government and governments around the world to bring in laws that are friendly to banks and multinational companies.

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2. (會計) 未抵押资金；（某种用途的或用途被改变的）资金
   • 2021年6月28日, Daniel Liberto, “Slush Fund”, 出自 Investopedia‎^[2]:

     A slush fund is a sum of money that is set aside as a reserve. In accounting, a slush fund is a general ledger account of commingled funds that does not have a designated purpose. In more sinister cases, a slush fund may be used as a "black fund," which is unaccounted for and kept off the books.

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