lavendering 

1)what black and brown people do as opposed to blushing.

2)the urban and once conclusive expression of blushing between two people but as a result of perpetual usage in urban areas new verbage was born

Ex:1)I haven't lavendered from positive verbal expression in a while but this new girl has the advantage of speaking to me in such a positive way that makes my cheeks promply change colors and rise just below my eyes.

Ex :2) I always knew there was a reason that purple was my favorite color...I guess it's because I knew eventualy one day i'd come acorss someone who could make me lavender.

Ex: 3) I'm lavendering as I type this

lavendering by ynotilikeice November 5, 2008

lavendering 

1)what black and brown people do as opposed to blushing.

2)the urban and once conclusive expression of blushing between two people but as a result of perpetual usage in urban areas new verbage was born

Ex:1)I haven't lavendered from positive verbal expression in a while but this new girl has the advantage of speaking to me in such a positive way that makes my cheeks promptly change colors and rise just below my eyes.

Ex :2) I always knew there was a reason that purple was my favorite color...I guess it's because I knew eventualy one day i'd come across someone who could make me lavender.

Ex: 3) I'm lavendering as I type this

lavendering by ynot & ice January 12, 2009

gift card laundering 

The act of using a gift card to purchase another gift card of equal or slightly greater value in order to hide the fact that you're just regifting the original gift card.

After I do some gift card laundering at the mall today, these gift cards I got last Christmas will be squeaky clean and ready for regifting. No one will ever catch on to my operation - muhahaHAHA!

gift card laundering by Jeema December 7, 2009

reputational laundering 

Reputational laundering - the act of appearing to do good publicly in order to offset a negative image. A technique usually employed by individuals or corporations who have made their money in a morally questionable fashion and who wish to appear to have a moral conscience.

Reputational laundering often comes in the form of Corporate Social Responsibility, where a relatively trivial sum of profits are donated by the corporation to fund socially oriented activities in order to suggest that the corporation is socially responsible.

An example, often sited, would be major oil companies giving charitable funds to communities in the Nigeria Delta whose original livelihoods they were implicit in destroying through the extraction of crude oil.

However the practice of reputational laundering is by no means exclusive to corporations. Many morally bankrupt individuals donate money to charity in order that they are seen to care about social or environmental issues. As an added benefit to their undeservedly improved public image they also enjoy significant tax breaks on their donations.

Given that it has just paid record fines for insider trading, PJ Gorman’s effort to support a youth programme in the inner city is little more than reputational laundering.

reputational laundering by katrinmacmillan May 11, 2016

money laundering 

The process of running illegal proceeds through a supposedly legitimate business, to turn your "dirty" money into "clean" money, and, uh, fuck it just go watch season 4 of Breaking Bad.

Money laundering plays a major role in season 4 of Breaking Bad. You should check it out sometime.

money laundering by HighwayRobber November 17, 2015

Reputational laundering 

When Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, and Elaine Chao say they are leaving the Trump Administration because they have principles, but we all know it’s less than two weeks before they would be out of their jobs anyway and they just want to save their social standing and careers in the future. Plus, they have no principles or integrity.

These reputational laundering attempts coming out in the final hours of the Trump White House are fooling no one.

Reputational laundering by 45 exits the building January 9, 2021

money laundering 

(n.) The process of hiding the source of illegal income by processing it through a large-turnover entity, who takes a premium from it, and then receiving the income from that entity to avoid suspicion.

This definition has evolved to include any form of hiding income (or sources of income) in the interests of avoiding tax, although the problem posed by non-specific 'cover-all' statements means that it is open to loopholes because of the vast grey areas.

Money laundering has been practised for over 6000 years, but the term itself comes from the prohibition era of american history.

If a public limited company were to pay its director fees or dividends through purchasing toy cars worth £1 each for @ £50,000 each from a foreign company (and listing them as real cars) owned by the receiving directors/shareholders so they get their money with minor taxation, that would be covered by the extended definition of money laundering.

money laundering by the slut formerly known as your mother September 25, 2004