How to Use off-the-books in a Sentence

off-the-books

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• Three-quarters of Zimbabweans toil in the informal workforce, one of the highest rates of off-the-books work in the world.
  — Tawanda Karombo, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2024
• Some have found off-the-books jobs in construction and housekeeping.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• In the old versions, the players were simply labeled with fake names or numbers, unless the gamers found an off-the-books workaround.
  — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 20 July 2024
• Mike soon finds out that Roxanne is a spy with an off-the-books government organization called The Union.
  — Tim Lammers, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• She’s recruited by a dodgy British officer (Joseph Fiennes), who also deals arms on the black market, for a number of off-the-books jobs.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
• Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has his own personal, off-the-books hedge fund called the Setad, which is worth $95 billion.
  — Michael R. Pompeo, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
• To make some money in the meantime—and to eat anything apart from what the shelter offered—residents of the Hall pursued several off-the-books occupations.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Local politicians from all parties benefited from the jobs, housing and off-the-books payments that commonly flowed from it all.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• While some people are finding off-the-books employment as waiters or tour guides, experts say tourism is failing to bring a substantial increase in higher wage jobs.
  — Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
• Weisselberg pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges last year and testified against the company, which was convicted of doling out off-the-books perks to some of its top executives.
  — Jesse McKinley, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• After some discussion about legalizing and regulating the largely off-the-books machines, Link asked Arroyo if the two of them could speak in private.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2023
• Out of other options, Rowan turns to her ex-boyfriend — geneticist Sam Larkin, who’s on the cusp of literally curing blindness(?!) — for an off-the-books testing of Lasher’s genetics.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 5 Jan. 2025
• By combing through financial data, he's flagged a line item in the budget for an unofficial, off-the-books, really expensive task force.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 15 May 2023
• An elite task force of investigators has its hands full when an off-the-books max-security prison sees a massive breach, leading to the escape of the most notorious convicts.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
• Arman recorded the calamity, which is why he’s being targeted by off-the-books Decision Tree mercenaries in his new home in Norfolk, Va.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Her husband is still awaiting his work authorization and meanwhile looks for off-the-books jobs every morning with other day laborers.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• Cervantes, who worked at the shop as an off-the-books art curator, never notified the coffee shop and was never authorized to teach lifeguarding classes there, according to Steve Boland, who owned the shop at the time but has since sold it.
  — Douglas MacMillan, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
• Weisselberg went to jail last year after pleading guilty to evading taxes on $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation from the Trump Organization.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
• This year’s version is another rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul maneuver that would remove $8.8 billion in overpayments of state aid from previous years from the budget and treat it, in effect, as a off-the-books loan to be written off over five years.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
• In the age of generative AI, the theft of huge troves of medical information might be even more dangerous, as our health records wind up in data sets that enable off-the-books innovation in exploiting our ails.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
• Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the worry primarily concerned the use of such off-the-books ships to circumvent Western sanctions and generate revenue to fuel the Kremlin’s war machine.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
• The feature, which is being produced by Hidden Pictures, follows a racetrack veterinarian who runs an off-the-books ER for criminals and finds his practice and life in jeopardy when he’s recruited for his patient’s heist.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Weisselberg went to jail last year after pleading guilty to evading taxes on $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation from the Trump Organization, including a luxury apartment and a Mercedes-Benz.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 5 Mar. 2024
• That is at least in part because China is facing a debt bomb at home: trillions of dollars owed by local governments, their mostly off-the-books financial affiliates, and real estate developers.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• Subsequent media and congressional investigations alleged that Dunn had an off-the-books meeting with Biogen's head scientist two years prior, which kicked off an unusually close collaboration in the lead-up to the approval.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023