dirty money
noun[U]
MONEYukusmoneythat someone gets in anunfair,illegal, ordishonestway:
Wewantto make it moredifficultforcriminalsto use the City of London as avenueforlaunderingdirtymoney.
Examplesofdirty money
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This allows them to wash hundreds of millions of dollars indirtymoneyper year and it provides money for future projects and business ventures.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One candidate was removed from the election list in relation the possible involvement in the washing ofdirtymoney.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The methods they use for converting itsdirtymoneyinto clean assets encourages corruption.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The measure was intended to block the use of 'dirtymoney' that had been illegally accumulated by members of the former nomenklatura or black marketers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
So where, in your economy, is the dividing line betweendirtymoneyand allegedly clean money?
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Arguably, the best way to combat drug trafficking is to dismantle the international networks for the distribution and laundering ofdirtymoney.
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Factors such as globalisation can be seen to have enhanced the possibilities of launderingdirtymoneyand the means of avoiding prosecution.
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Rather than earningdirtymoneyfrom all the conflict, destruction and human suffering, there must now be an end to these arms sales.
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Their profit isdirtymoney, contaminated by the blood of the millions of people who die of dysentery, cholera, typhus, malaria and bilharzia.
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