"off the books" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

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  1. (colloquial, with regard to income) Undeclared for [[tax]es] and social insurance purposes, etc. Tags: colloquial Synonyms: off-the-books (english: preceding a noun only) Related terms: backhander, off the record, under the counter Translations (undeclared for tax and social insurance): in 't zwart (Dutch), hors des comptes (French), abseits der Konten (German), schwarz (German), feketén (Hungarian), zsebbe (Hungarian), in nero (Italian), niezaksięgowany (Polish), kayıt dışı (Turkish), el altından (Turkish)

Alternative forms

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