slush fund

英語

詞源

原指水手販賣slush (「一種油脂混合物」)得到的錢。

名詞

slush fund (複數 slush funds)

1. (金融) 非法資金，行賄基金

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

   據稱，他用自己政黨的非法資金來在選舉中買票。

   • 2008 9月 28, 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) 未抵押資金；（某種用途的或用途被改變的）資金
   • 2021 6月 28, 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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