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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A fund raised for undesignated purposes, especially:
  2. n. A fund raised by a group for corrupt practices, such as bribery or graft.
  3. n. A fund used by a group, as for entertainment.
  4. n. Money formerly raised by the sale of garbage from a warship to buy small items of luxury for the crew.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Money stored for illegal or dishonest purposes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a fund for buying votes or bribing public officials

Examples

  • “Mal wondered if Mickey C. was a contributor to Loew’s six-figure slush fund — which should hit the half million mark by the time of the ‘52 primaries.”

    The Big Nowhere

  • “The take on illegal gambling's our only slush fund — a lot of it goes to pay our ring of informers.”

    Noble House

  • “On Election Day I was given a $15,000 cash slush fund by the New Jersey Republican State Committee to pay the supposedly unpaid “volunteers.””

    Simon & Schuster: How to Rig an Election

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  1. monetary fund
  1. fund

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  1. slush-fund

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