0 an amount of money that is kept for dishonest or illegal activities in politics or business: --
1 money that is kept by a business or other organization for illegal purposes: --
2 money that is kept for unexpected costs: --
The lottery should not be seen as a community resource or slush fund for local authorities or assemblies as a substitute for public funds.
Well, why should this fund be a slush fund?
Our concern now is to have necessary control over the "slush fund".
Earlier, we heard of a county which allegedly had very high reserves that were referred to as a "slush fund".
At the moment, unchallenged, there is an imputation of slush fund creation by a public body so that there could be a very necessary visit.
Whether we shall eventually get it nobody knows, but there was no slush fund.
It became a slush fund for the owners of stately homes and other properties.
One could call it a slush fund or a hush fund.