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slush fund 1. a fund for financing political or commercial corruption 2. US nautical a fund accumulated from the sale of slush from the galley How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But it took them almost no time to get around tighter laws by creating slush funds, paid for by lobbyists, that buy them the same perks. While London officials have made good on their promise to use toll revenue only for transport purposes, American politicians have a habit of steering toll money into nebulous slush funds and turning transport bills into free-for-alls. Over the centuries, as every graduate student of history knows, presidents and potentates have had their slush funds to carry out discreet activities of statecraft that they would prefer not to explain in public. |
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