slush fund
Secret payoff money
A slush fund is a reserve of money kept for unofficial, discretionary, or illicit purposes.
Originally naval slang for money from selling cooking grease, it now typically suggests funds used for bribery, political payoffs, or expenses an organization prefers not to document: The investigation uncovered a slush fund for paying off inspectors.
Illegal payment for services
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- graftIllicit political gain
- payoffCulminating benefit received
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
hush money · under-the-table · money laundering · misappropriation · backhander · payola · malfeasance · sweetener
Accumulated resources for conflict
- kittyPooled group money
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- stashHidden reserve
- cacheConcealed storage spot
kickback
Illegal payment for services
embezzlement · hush money · under-the-table · money laundering · misappropriation · backhander · payola · malfeasance · sweetener · illicit
war chest
Accumulated resources for conflict
- kittyPooled group money
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- stashHidden reserve
cache · petty cash · provision · allocation
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
- fundsendowment, ETF, seed money
- anticorruptionanti-graft, ethics commission, ethics committee, financial disclosure, graft
- corporate crimescorporate fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, price fixing, embezzlement
- criminal schemesconspiracy, collusion, racketeering, kickback scheme, assassination plot
slush fundpublic trust
Faith in institutions
scholarship fund · relief fund · community fund · endowment · pension fund
slush fundescrow account
Neutral fund holding
earmarked funds · trust account · trust fund · endowment · pension fund
fund, funds, funding, refund, fundamental, slushy, funded, slush, fundraiser