fakelaki

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English

Etymology

From Greek φακελάκι (fakeláki, “little envelope”).

Noun

fakelaki (plural fakelakia)

  1. An envelope containing cash, offered as a bribe in Greece.
    • 2011, John Lanchester, Once Greece goes…:
      Various forms of corruption permeated the system, where cash gifts in fakelaki or ‘little envelopes’ were a fact of life, and where, crucially, the rich regarded paying tax as something that only the poor and stupid would ever choose to do.
    • 2013, Michael G. Pento, The Coming Bond Market Collapse:
      But Greek tax officials are rumored to be notoriously easy to bribe with a fakelaki (small envelope) of cash.
    • 2018, Panos Minogiannis, European Integration and Health Policy:
      Specific cases have been rumored to demand up to $4,000 as a fakelaki.

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