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• Mingbi (China)
  ...own as ‘spirit money’ or ‘joss paper’, are paper replicas of items such as money, houses, or furniture, as well as modern everyday possessions like cars, la ...ucian practices of ancestor worship require the material transfer of food, money and other items to the deceased, often in the form of joss paper items, rit
  10 KB (1,445 words) - 11:47, 18 April 2023
• Vekslování (Czechoslovakia)
  | definition = an illegal money exchange by ''veksláks'' (currency hustlers) ...illegal, the hustlers were charged with ‘a crime of threat to the foreign exchange economy’, ‘a crime of speculation’ and ‘a crime of parasitism’ an
  10 KB (1,503 words) - 18:45, 31 January 2025
• Snow washing (Canada)
  | definition = Euphemism for money laundering practices in Canada, alluding to Canadian weather ...:Category: North America| North America]] – [[:Category: Money laundering| Money laundering]] – [[:Category: Borders| Borders]] – [[:Category: Taxation|
  9 KB (1,322 words) - 15:04, 20 November 2019
• Cash-for-access (United Kingdom)
  ...in cash for access cases use terminology that suggests a particular sum of money can ‘open the door’ or ‘open doors’ to the office-holder in questio ...<ref>Farrell, David M., Ian McAllister, and Donley T. Studlar. 1998. ‘Sex, Money and Politics: Sleaze and the Conservative Party in the 1997 Election’. Br
  13 KB (1,845 words) - 12:11, 12 May 2020
• Pujogǔm (South Korea)
  ...ry: Envelope| Envelope]] – [[:Category: Cash| Cash]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] – [[:Category: Payment| Payment]] – [[:Category: Bribe| Bribe]] [[Category: Money]]
  7 KB (1,092 words) - 16:11, 12 November 2019
• Hawala (Middle East, India and Pakistan)
  | definition =Informal system of money exchange prevalent throughout South Asia and the Middle East ...] – [[:Category: Transfer| Transfer]] – [[:Category: Money exchange| Money exchange]] – [[:Category: Triangle| Triangle]]
  17 KB (2,403 words) - 11:50, 11 May 2020
• Paid favours (United Kingdom)
  ...ider kinship, friendship and neighbourly networks that are reimbursed with money ...| Friendship]] – [[:Category: Community| Community]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] – [[:Category: Payment| Payment]] – [[:Category: Favour| Favour]]
  17 KB (2,488 words) - 16:52, 17 May 2019
• Vzaimnyi zachet (Russia)
  ...ilateral exchange in kind’, and referring to a specific type of inter-firm exchange, whereby a commodity transferred to a partner is paid for by non-monetary m ...plural (''vzaimnye zachety''), it refers to a specific type of inter-firm exchange, whereby a commodity transferred to a partner is paid for by non-monetary m
  14 KB (1,911 words) - 16:41, 29 September 2019
• Hongbao (China)
  ...er and recipient, i.e. the closer the relationship, the greater the sum of money given. The ''hongbao'' culture is also commonly found in other Chinese soci ...ft can be traced back to the Song Dynasty in the 12th century, when giving money, or ''lishi'' was first recorded. 1,000 years ago Chinese parents gave thei
  13 KB (1,917 words) - 15:23, 29 June 2020
• Indulgence (Global)
  | definition = A monetary or in-kind payment in exchange for a full or partial remission of the punishment for sin in the Roman Cath ...ation. It was no longer the attainment of spiritual grace but the need for money that […] became the real reason why ''indulgences'' were requested and co
  9 KB (1,238 words) - 09:11, 7 May 2021
• Vote buying / Vote selling (Western Balkans)
  ...patronage]] – [[:Category: Governance| Governance]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] – [[:Category: Cash| Cash]] – [[:Category: Payment| Payment]] [[Category: Vote exchange]]
  13 KB (1,733 words) - 16:02, 3 February 2020
• Tandas and cundinas (Mexico and south-western USA)
  ...heme| Scheme]] – [[:Category: Community| Community]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] – [[:Category: Borders| Borders]] – [[:Category: ROSCA| ROSCA]] [[Category: Money]]
  10 KB (1,439 words) - 15:38, 10 September 2019
• Runs (Nigeria)
  [[Category: Exchange]]
  12 KB (1,597 words) - 07:41, 23 November 2020
• Blat (Romania)
  ...eva, A. 1998. ''Russia’s economy of favours: Blat, networking and informal exchange.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press</ref>. ...to money. In Romania, by contrast, ''blat'' was already a form of monetary exchange, exercised for the pursuit of financial reward, and so it remained in the p
  14 KB (2,093 words) - 12:52, 26 July 2019
• Fakelaki (Greece)
  | definition =Infamous envelopes of money given for such diverse things as hospital treatment, university degrees, an ...tle envelope’; plural fakelakia) is the Greek term for a small envelope of money that is used to secure various services such as medical treatment in hospit
  8 KB (1,073 words) - 12:06, 12 May 2020
• Dalali (India)
  ...''dalals'' take fees and commissions and produce nothing themselves. Stock exchange brokers, ticket touts, pimps, matchmakers, real estate brokers, and the lar ...he credit for it, and if they didn’t, they would simply return some of the money (preferably as little as they could get away with).
  11 KB (1,586 words) - 15:24, 29 June 2020
• Bitcoin (Global)
  ...– [[:Category: Cyberinformality| Cyberinformality]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] [[Category: Money]]
  12 KB (1,647 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2019
• Svart Arbete (Sweden)
  ...egory: EU| EU]] – [[:Category: Payment| Payment]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] – [[:Category: Employment| Employment]] – [[:Category: Tax avoidanc [[Category: Money]]
  12 KB (1,669 words) - 20:04, 19 June 2022
• Stacze kolejkowi (Poland)
  ...| Scheme]] – [[:Category: Opportunity| Opportunity]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] [[Category: Money]]
  11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:06, 23 April 2020
• Mungu idekh (Mongolia)
  | definition =Lit. 'eating money', the use of public funds in a way that does not enrich the people socially ...]] – [[:Category: Political party| Political party]] – [[:Category: Money| Money]] – [[:Category: Cash| Cash]] – [[:Category: Payment| Payment]] – [[:
  12 KB (1,711 words) - 16:22, 29 September 2019

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