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slush funds

slush funds is the plural of slush fund.

Meaning of slush fund

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.
  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

Questions about slush funds

What is slush funds the plural of?
Slush funds is the plural of slush fund.

Words near slush funds in the dictionary

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

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