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Words having nautical origins



This week’s words

offing

jury-rig

slush fund

pinchgut

jettison



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slush fund PRONUNCIATION: (sluhsh fuhnd)

MEANING: noun: A fund established for illegal activities, especially in business and politics.

ETYMOLOGY: Originally, a slush fund was money collected to buy small luxuries for a ship’s crew. The fund was raised from the sale of slush (refuse fat) from the ship’s galley. Earliest documented use: 1839.

USAGE:

Spiritualist at Centre of Crisis Goes on Trial; The Nelson Mail (New Zealand); Dec 20, 2016.



See more usage examples of “[Choi] used her friendship with the South Korean leader to pressure businesses into donating to charitable foundations, which served as her personal slush fund.”Spiritualist at Centre of Crisis Goes on Trial;(New Zealand); Dec 20, 2016.See more usage examples of slush fund in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. -Norman Angell, lecturer, author, MP, and Nobel laureate (1872-1967)





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