under-the-table :

Search Words
You can search or browse for words

under-the-table


  • s  designed and carried out secretly or confidentially
    has their under-the-table backing

  • Last week, government agents arrested two former television producers for accepting under-the-table payments guaranteeing TV appearances to aspiring singers and musicians.
  • Most under-the-table payments abroad had apparently gone to shadowy intermediaries, lower-or middle-level government officials, or chiefs of small developing countries that had .
  • But most Iraqi refugees aren't legally allowed to work in Lebanon, and those who do usually take menial under-the-table jobs such as washing cars for $14 a day.

Bee Dictionary: Search, browse, look at common errors, idioms and more.