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Recent Examples of under-the-table
Making tips explicitly tax free will help with this, and will also remove the stigma that has been associated with tips as under-the-table income.
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Joe Moglia, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Fewer than 10% of Syrian adults have work permits, with the rest being limited to informal, under-the-table jobs.
—Scott McLean, CNN, 24 July 2024
In 2018, after media accounts revealed one such donor’s under-the-table contributions to an Australian senator—who then provided countersurveillance advice to the Chinese donor—the senator was forced to resign his seat.
—Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
In February 2023, the team was investigated for allegedly circumventing the WNBA’s salary cap rules for offering under-the-table payments to players.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 May 2024
While migrants wait, many rely on public resources or take low-paying and unreliable, under-the-table gigs.
—Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
The most common job for these children is under-the-table work in roofing and construction, according to teachers, social workers, labor organizers and federal investigators.
—Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
In contrast, a home office makes the window for such under-the-table information exchanges elusive.
—Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 18 July 2023
First, the elephant in the room: Yes, some of these shops are doing a fantastic business in under-the-table or dubiously legal cannabis, especially in places where new laws have reduced penalties for unlicensed sales or created some legal confusion over exactly what merchants are allowed to carry.
—Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
Joe Moglia, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Fewer than 10% of Syrian adults have work permits, with the rest being limited to informal, under-the-table jobs.
—Scott McLean, CNN, 24 July 2024
In 2018, after media accounts revealed one such donor’s under-the-table contributions to an Australian senator—who then provided countersurveillance advice to the Chinese donor—the senator was forced to resign his seat.
—Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
In February 2023, the team was investigated for allegedly circumventing the WNBA’s salary cap rules for offering under-the-table payments to players.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 May 2024
While migrants wait, many rely on public resources or take low-paying and unreliable, under-the-table gigs.
—Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
The most common job for these children is under-the-table work in roofing and construction, according to teachers, social workers, labor organizers and federal investigators.
—Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
In contrast, a home office makes the window for such under-the-table information exchanges elusive.
—Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 18 July 2023
First, the elephant in the room: Yes, some of these shops are doing a fantastic business in under-the-table or dubiously legal cannabis, especially in places where new laws have reduced penalties for unlicensed sales or created some legal confusion over exactly what merchants are allowed to carry.
—Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for under-the-table
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By night, his father would lend him his binoculars to spy on women through their windows, filling in any gaps in his anatomical understanding with whatever under-the-counter girly magazines had managed to wiggle through Italy’s draconian censorship.Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
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Filtering your water If PFAS levels are concerning, consumers can purchase an under-the-counter water filter for their tap.Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
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Fair enough, as long as baby Halo isn’t doing any unauthorized sponsorships anytime soon.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Cyber Protect Advanced enables remote device management, including data wiping, to prevent unauthorized access.PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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Throughout modern Chinese history, rumor has been a flexible category that has included not only speculation and falsehoods but also unsanctioned opinions about contemporary events.Jason Q. Ng, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2015
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The problem is, bad guys easily create a host of new unsanctioned wallets, with layers of separation from their illicit activities, to outsmart solutions like this.Javier Paz, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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On Tuesday, Vice President Nguema Obiang Mangue ordered new measures to prevent judiciary and ministry officials from engaging in illicit acts at work, a government statement said.Reuters, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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His surname is derived from Ar-Ramtha, a city on the northern edge of Jordan which grew prosperous through the illicit transit of goods in and out of the country.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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That project was thrown into the spotlight seven years ago after authorities discovered that Job Torres Hernandez, an unlicensed subcontractor, was holding immigrant workers in a warehouse and forcing them to work without pay.Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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During the twentieth century, decades of looting by divers and unlicensed salvage companies stripped some seabeds clean.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Given his support for dubious and unproven therapies, such as stem cells and hyperbaric oxygen, an FDA under Kennedy, for instance, could choose to not go after companies that market unapproved treatments.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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The dispute relates to a lawsuit filed by Art City Center in 2022, which accused Gap of making unapproved modifications to a downtown Los Angeles building leased as part of the partnership between Yeezy and Gap.Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Officers conducting a preliminary investigation reviewed messages the student had left on Discord, an online chatting app used by gamers and others, and arrested the student on suspicion of making criminal threats.Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Those schools were, according to former pupils, hotbeds of cruelty and child abuse — an independent investigation in 2005 found evidence of criminal assault at the boys’ school in the 1970s and ’80s — as well as highly traditionalist values.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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The filing also details various legal proceedings, including investigations by the DOJ and SEC related to allegations of improper billing and remuneration.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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For this vital right to be effective, election officials must be permitted to do their jobs free from improper partisan influence, physical threats, or any other conduct designed to intimidate.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Under-the-table.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/under-the-table. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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