money laundering

money laundering
noun
Money laundering is used before these nouns: ↑ring, ↑scheme

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  • money laundering — The transferring of *money derived from illegal activities into legal or legitimate channels. Money laundering is intended to conceal the illegal origins of funds, and it is commonly associated with drug trafficking and *smuggling. In the United… …   Auditor's dictionary

  • money laundering — The conversion or transfer of property derived from a criminal offense for the purpose of concealing, or disguising, the illicit origin of the property, or of assissting any person who is involved in the commission of such an offense, to evade… …   Financial and business terms

  • money laundering — N UNCOUNT Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained. ...the largest money laundering scandal in history …   English dictionary

  • money laundering — noun concealing the source of illegally gotten money • Hypernyms: ↑concealment, ↑concealing, ↑hiding * * * money laundering using banking or other financial maneuvers to obscure the source of illicit income: » Agents investigating money… …   Useful english dictionary

  • money laundering —    If people launder money, they get money made illegally into the mainstream so that it is believed to be legitimate and clean.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    When people launder money, they manage to conceal the source of illegally… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Money Laundering — The process of creating the appearance that large amounts of money obtained from serious crimes, such as drug trafficking or terrorist activity, originated from a legitimate source. Some estimate the size of the problem is over $500 billion… …   Investment dictionary

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