From the old court treasury (regent’s cascet), the private treasury of the sovereign. – A sum of money, usually in cash, made freely available to senior staff members without obligation to keep records in detail for the payment of minor expenses (trust-based expenses); in old documents also called Hadergeld; hadern = here: to haggle, to bargain. – Means used for direct or indirect bribery (in English jokingly also moneypulating); the sum accumulated for this purpose is also called slush fund (boodle): an institution completely unknown in the Teutonic world. – Sums paid by bidders to decision-makers of the target company (acquiree: the firm that should be acquired) in order to influence them accordingly. – In real estate purchases, the usual advance payment in cash to the seller in order to keep the notarized price of the property lower and thereby save real estate transfer tax (property acquisition tax), also called underdemtisch money. – Another term for service money – in brothels, the taking of a prostitute from the first suitor a day. – In old documents sometimes also generally meaning cash. – In football and other sports, the transfer fee for a player. – Formerly, a one-off payment that a new tenant had to make to the lord of the manor, even in the case of inheritance, also called handloan (a one-off payment paid to the original owner of the ground on occasion of a change in leaseholder). – See recognition bonus, gratuity, welcome money, douceur, foot money, money, soft, money payment gesture, gratuist, glove money, investment, personal, préstamo, shipowner’s money, reimbursement, kickback, supplication money, transaction bonus, tip.
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