under-the-counter in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for under-the-counter in the English»French Dictionary

I.under-the-counter ADJ

under-the-counter goods, supply, trade

illicite

under-the-counter payment

sous le manteau

II.under the counter ADV

under the counter buy, obtain, sell:

under the counter

sous le manteau, clandestinement

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary

these magazines are sold under the counter

on vend ces magazines en sous-main

to do a deal under the counter

conclure un accord en sous-main

Translations for under-the-counter in the French»English Dictionary

dessous-de-table <pl dessous-de-table> [d(ə)sudtabl] N m

dessous-de-table (entre particuliers)

under-the-counter payment

dessous-de-table (pot-de-vin)

bribe

dessous-de-table (pot-de-vin)

backhander Brit inf

recevoir des dessous-de-table de qn

to be bribed by sb

under-the-counter in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for under-the-counter in the English»French Dictionary

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary

under the counter

sous le manteau

under-the-counter Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

under the counter

sous le manteau

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

These were sold at burlesque halls as well as under-the-counter at discreet newsstands.

en.wikipedia.org

Public health experts have warned about the dangers of buying under-the-counter meat.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

The soaring prices have seen people on a tight budget resort to buying under-the-counter packets -- unaware of the massive added health risks they are exposing themselves to.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Detectives seized 80 million cigarettes and more than 70 tonnes of tobacco headed for under-the-counter sales.

www.theage.com.au

We bet people paid extra for under-the-counter homemade desserts.

gothamist.com

It has been a party that has been free of corruption -- no unhealthy associations with big business, no under-the-counter dealings.

www.irishexaminer.com

His reward was a massive under-the-counter salary of $50,000 a year, plus a luxury car with a chauffeur.

www.independent.ie

Others simply did not question it at all, taking small under-the-counter transactions for granted.

www.huffingtonpost.com

After she got to 23 under-the-counter lorises, she became too upset to carry on.

www.independent.co.uk

Giving out thousands in under-the-counter pay-offs to silence departing staff is not the way to achieve this.

www.telegraph.co.uk