slush money AmE slang
slush fund slang

The President's party concedes it received some of the slush money, which may have been used in the 1992 presidential campaign.

I don't believe that there's a lot of slush money sitting in the system because departments' budgets have been strained over the years, he explains.

I opined that asset values would spiral higher for no better reason than there was nothing else to do with the slush money.

He goes to the safe to get the money for the overall, and finds all the slush money that Ricky was given.

But pushing the system beyond its technical capacity and cutting corners to free up slush money are plausible factors.

Ambulances were a popular way to ferry slush money around, local media reported, since they're rarely stopped at checkpoints.

And finally, require detailed reporting on more than $1 billion a year in slush money that appears in lump sums in the budget.

No bean counter, no auditor, no regulator had ever caught wind of the slush money.

They allege that slush money flowed liberally through the headquarters of Mr Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) for at least two decades.

This cannot be permitted within the EU, and so we should call on the EU and its Member States to cut off the channels for slush money outside its borders as well.

In 2013 Spain's two main dailies, El Mundo (center-right) and El País (center-left), alleged that the PP had used unofficial parallel accounting to hide slush money from illegal donations.

Mr Ozawa had tried desperately to stay on as party leader after a fundraising scandal that erupted in March in which his political secretary was accused by Tokyo prosecutors of accepting some ¥35m ($354,000) in slush money from a construction firm.

Mr Olver often worked double his two-day a week commitment, overseeing a huge cultural change at BAE following the revelation the company had paid billions of pounds in slush money to a network of middlemen, including members of the Saudi royal family.

The commissioner, Charles Quackenbush, one of only two Republicans who hold statewide office, is fighting accusations that he allowed half a dozen insurance companies to shortchange earthquake victims, and that in return the companies financed nonprofit foundations that he set up to funnel political slush money.

If a fund is in the form of money, it is not even necessary to refer to it outside the company accounts, since it can appear in them in disguised form (the "accruals and deferrals" heads are often resorted to for the purpose of hiding slush money).

Later, he said, Japanese officials used the money as a slush fund.

And it goes without saying that he should cut the slush funds.

At this point, it looks too much like the governor’s secret slush fund.

Report the slush funds hidden in the state's $80 billion budget.

We weren't playing the horses or using this as some kind of slush fund.

And it became a slush fund for those beloved social programs.

Press reports are agreed that the slush fund was shut down several years ago.

The leaders said the mayor treated the money like a "slush fund."

"The Secretary assured us it would not become a slush fund."

She believes the stimulus bill was nothing but a "slush fund."

I didn't want to give a slush fund to Halliburton.

The chairman admitted last year to playing a role in setting up the slush funds.

Both terrorists and organized crime put slush funds to bad use.

He was also provided with a large slush fund to finance these operations.

"There's no evidence whatsoever that there was a slush fund."

"It is not a slush fund that the state should look to every time it's in trouble to balance the budget."

When asked about using a slush fund, Quinn said it was a practice that has been dropped.

They pooled the money in a slush fund and used it to open another company.

No more slush funds for them to pay off their friends at Wall Street.

To finance their operations, the police had access to a large secret slush fund.

You… can see that money from the slush fund may have been used to buy a house in Melbourne.

Corporate welfare and slush funds should not be confused with real economic growth.

Secret election campaign slush funds are a fixture in American politics.

Over time, options from the slush fund account were transferred to real employees.