moneythat someone gets in anunfair,illegal, ordishonestway:Wewantto make it moredifficultforcriminalsto use the City of London as avenueforlaunderingdirtymoney.(Definition ofdirty moneyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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dirty moneyThis allows them to wash hundreds of millions of dollars indirtymoneyper year and it provides money for future projects and business ventures.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One candidate was removed from the election list in relation the possible involvement in the washing ofdirtymoney.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The methods they use for converting itsdirtymoneyinto clean assets encourages corruption.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The measure was intended to block the use of 'dirtymoney' that had been illegally accumulated by members of the former nomenklatura or black marketers.From theCambridge English CorpusSo where, in your economy, is the dividing line betweendirtymoneyand allegedly clean money?FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishArguably, the best way to combat drug trafficking is to dismantle the international networks for the distribution and laundering ofdirtymoney.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishFactors such as globalisation can be seen to have enhanced the possibilities of launderingdirtymoneyand the means of avoiding prosecution.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishRather than earningdirtymoneyfrom all the conflict, destruction and human suffering, there must now be an end to these arms sales.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishTheir profit isdirtymoney, contaminated by the blood of the millions of people who die of dysentery, cholera, typhus, malaria and bilharzia.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/dirty-money##