Money & Finance Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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wheeling n. The best bill in the whole bunch is A-1660, a comprehensive measure the Senate passed last year. It covers all levels of government and eliminates the back-channel practice known as “wheeling,” which lets contributors skirt limits as counties transfer money back and forth. [English Money & Finance Politics] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2005)

wheeling n. Kean and Lance said the Democratic proposals don’t address the practice of “wheeling” whereby contributors “launder” contributions by making them to a different county political organization, which in turn donate the money to the contributor’s county organization. [English Money & Finance Politics] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2005)

wheeling n. Freeholder Amy H. Handlin, who in recent months has emerged as an advocate for government reform, and Monmouth County Republican Party Chairman William Dowd both said yesterday that the practice of “wheeling”—in which money collected elsewhere in the state is used in Monmouth County campaigns—must be addressed first by the Legislature. [New Jersey English Money & Finance Politics] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2005)

whip-out n. Fred Smith, founder and chief executive officer of Memphis-based Federal Express, is the name that comes to everyone’s lips when asked what advantage the city has in the race for an NFL expansion team. “Fred has said, ‘I’ll tote the note,’” Cooley says. Frankly, I don’t think anyone in Jacksonville has that kind of whip-out.” [English Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 20, 2007)

whippy n. A chief of detectives at Kings Cross, Detective Inspector Brian Meredith, had said he was against police taking regular bribes but as far as he was concerned they could pocket “whippy”—money they found on searches—the Police Royal Commission heard yesterday.…“He said to me he was against anyone accepting a “retainer,” as he put it, but if you went somewhere and found a “whippy,” then as far as he was concerned, it was a free-for-all,” Sergeant Scullion said. [English Australia Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2007)

whisper number n. Rumor-mongering, of course, has long been the stock in trade of some on Wall Street. Billions of dollars a day are bet on “whisper numbers” and overheard lunchtime chatter. Information is the coin of the realm. Some of it is legal. Some of it is not. Just ask Ivan Boesky. [English Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 9, 2008)

white gold n. Traditionally white is the colour of mourning. When a person dies, friends, relatives and members of the community collect money in a white envelope (called white gold) for the family and the bereaved, which goes towards the cost of the funeral. Chinese people may be buried or cremated and the ashes may be shipped back to their ancestors’ grave. [English China Money & Finance] [full cite] (May. 16, 2007)

white label adj. The value proposition for this co-opetition-enabling resource is a central clearinghouse for digital recertification and a single source for eCommerce infrastructure mechanisms such as Internet banking, business-to-business transactions, eBill payment, brokerage services and other white label offerings. [English Business Money & Finance] [full cite] (Feb. 1, 2006)

white wash n. And therefore, you have to do a very detailed exercise and then do what is called white wash procedure. Under the white wash procedure, the directors of the company and have to make a statuary declaration that immediately after the financial assistance is provided and 12 months thereafter, the company will be able to pay all its obligations as well as will be able to pay as and when they fall due. This is a very serious statuary declaration because if for any reason it doesn’t work out then there is a criminal liability for all the directors. [English India Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 17, 2007)

white-label adj. Its Intermortgage division has already begun acting as a subcontractor for a handful of other firms and more contracts are expected. As a “white-label” mortgage processor, Intermortgage will enable its customers to offer home loans in their own name without the cost of running their own processing operation. [English Business Money & Finance] [full cite] (Feb. 1, 2006)

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