英语词汇“ghost voter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. As a modifier, designating a deceased or fictitious person registered in a system for the purpose of committing fraud, as in ghost voter, ghost worker, etc.; (also) designating a company registered purely to facilitate tax avoidance, fraud, etc. Cf. sense A. 11a.

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1855 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 11 Oct. 2/1 Even supposing the absence of ‘ghost’ voters and other frauds.

1939 N. Weyl & S. C. Weyl Reconquest of Mexico i. 30 [They] had stacked the muster rolls with legions of ‘imaginaries’, ghost soldiers, bearing the names of men long since dead, whose sole function was that of drawing pay on behalf of the officers who had resurrected them.

1974 Observer 27 Oct. 6/7 [He] is accused of making many more millions than he declared to tax authorities through the establishment of ghost companies.

1979 A. G. Lange Fraud & Abuse in Govt. Benefit Programs ii. 26 Ghost claimants may be created by employers for collection of unemployment insurance.

2020 Sun (Nigeria) (Nexis) 31 May Some of the people drawing salaries from the Federal Government coffers were ghost workers.

单词	ghost voter
释义	> as lemmas ghost voter b. As a modifier, designating a deceased or fictitious person registered in a system for the purpose of committing fraud, as in ghost voter, ghost worker, etc.; (also) designating a company registered purely to facilitate tax avoidance, fraud, etc. Cf. sense A. 11a. ΚΠ 1855 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 11 Oct. 2/1 Even supposing the absence of ‘ghost’ voters and other frauds. 1939 N. Weyl & S. C. Weyl Reconquest of Mexico i. 30 [They] had stacked the muster rolls with legions of ‘imaginaries’, ghost soldiers, bearing the names of men long since dead, whose sole function was that of drawing pay on behalf of the officers who had resurrected them. 1974 Observer 27 Oct. 6/7 [He] is accused of making many more millions than he declared to tax authorities through the establishment of ghost companies. 1979 A. G. Lange Fraud & Abuse in Govt. Benefit Programs ii. 26 Ghost claimants may be created by employers for collection of unemployment insurance. 2020 Sun (Nigeria) (Nexis) 31 May Some of the people drawing salaries from the Federal Government coffers were ghost workers. extracted from ghostn.adj. < as lemmas
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