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slush fund

slush fund noun: money stored for illegal or dishonest purposes.

Noun

slush fund (plural slush funds)

  1. Money stored for illegal or dishonest purposes.
    • He is said to have used his party’s slush fund to buy votes in the election.
    • 7: CERN bestows slush fund on the LHC. Take all pennies from the CERN space.2008 September 28, Illiad [pen name; J. D. Frazer], “The Large Hadron Collider Game”, in Userfriendly.org, archived from the original on 07 May 2019
  2. Money that has not been hypothecated or dedicated to a particular purpose, or which is used for a different purpose than originally intended.
    • 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.[2021 June 28, Daniel Liberto, “Slush Fund”, in Investopedia

slush fund meaning in Tamil

slush fund in Tamil

கையூட்டு நிதி

Forms of slush fund

pluralslush funds

Origin of slush fund

Originally in reference to money for miscellaneous uses that sailors made by selling slush (“a soft mixture of grease and other ingredients”).

Questions about slush fund

What does slush fund mean?
Slush fund means money stored for illegal or dishonest purposes.
What is slush fund in Tamil?
Slush fund in Tamil is கையூட்டு நிதி. See Slush fund meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is slush fund?
Slush fund is a noun.
What is the plural of slush fund?
The plural of slush fund is slush funds.

Words near slush fund in the dictionary

  1. slurs over
  2. slurve
  3. slurves
  4. Slurvian
  5. slush
  6. slush fund
  7. slush funds
  8. slush ice
  9. slush ices
  10. slush pile
  11. slush piles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slush fund (page history and authors); slush fund (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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