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Meaning of fakelaki | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

An envelope containing cash, offered as a bribe in Greece.

Examples

Various forms of corruption permeated the system, where cash gifts in fakelaki or ‘little envelopeswere 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.”
But Greek tax officials are rumored to be notoriously easy to bribe with a fakelaki (small envelope) of cash.”
Specific cases have been rumored to demand up to $4,000 as a fakelaki.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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