dirty money

noun

: money earned in an illegal activity

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Shadowrun players love new things to buy with their dirty money. Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 This is not a back-alley shop with a side hustle in cleaning dirty money. Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025 Or that the mayor (Ron Perlman, chewing the scenery as a garrulous Trump caricature) would make his dirty money so easy to find? David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024 The Games have become the world’s largest marketing mechanism and a safehouse for dictators’ dirty money. Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 These loopholes allow dictators and their cronies to stash and launder dirty money in and through anonymous shell companies and anonymous real estate purchases. Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019

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“Dirty money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirty%20money. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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