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General Slang
Dirty money
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Extra pay for doing a genuinely grim job.
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Definitions
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A bonus on top of normal wages for tasks that are unusually filthy, smelly, or hazardous, classically sewer work, asbestos stripping, or anything involving sludge. Old British union term, negotiated into trade agreements.
“If we're going down the manhole they can pay us dirty money.”
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More broadly, money earned through crime or other dishonest means, especially before being laundered.
“The whole property empire was built on dirty money.”
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Dirty money In A Sentence
If we're going down the manhole they can pay us dirty money.
The whole property empire was built on dirty money.
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Variants
dirt money
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