money launderingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈmʌn.i ˌlɔːn.də.rɪŋ/us/ˈmʌn.i ˌlɑːn.dɚ.ɪŋ/the crime of moving money that has been obtained illegally through banks and other businesses to make it seem as if the money has been obtained legally
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- corruption
- fraudulent accounting
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
- swindle
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