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| gen. |
dummy; prestanombres; assumed name; counterfeit; stooge; man of straw (straw man (CRIME) noun [C] (ALSO man of straw) UK someone, often an imaginary person, who is used to hide an illegal or secret activity: The fraud depended on hundreds of bank accounts being opened on behalf of straw men. CALD Alexander Demidov); figurehead; shoeing-horn (на аукционе); stalking-horse; front person (Lavrov); frontman (некто видимый и прикрывающий некого скрытого Yura); a man of straw; d; bybidder; shoehorn; shoeing horn; stalking horse; steerer; faggot; figure-head; proxy test taker (someone who takes test instead of another person, e.g. He used a proxy test taker to sit an English test. Stanislav Silinsky); front |
| adv. |
front man (при объявлении ложного банкротства) |
| bank. |
nominee name |
| busin. |
stand-in (BrinyMarlin); counterfeiter; nominee |
| crim.law. |
alchemist (A man who officially sold tiles was described by investigators as a sort of alchemist capable of creating shield companies in Croatia, Slovenia, Austria and Romania Alex_Odeychuk) |
| EBRD |
front party; straw party |
| econ. |
nominee (напр., владелец акций) |
| fig. |
straw man |
| fin. |
front (компания) |
| inf. |
rathole (Bartek2001) |
| jarg., Spain, amer. |
steer |
| law |
straw person (Andrey Truhachev) |
| Makarov. |
phantom; plant (делающее первую ставку в азартной игре, первым называющее цену на аукционе и т.п.) |
| org.crime. |
drop (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| slang |
designer; ghost; nark; shill (в игорном доме, на бирже и т.п., подбивающее клиентов на необдуманные поступки, шаги); strawman (a person used as a cover for some questionable activity, аналог зицпредседателя КГА) |
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| cinema |
the Hudsucker Proxy (фильм Великобритания,Германия,США 1977 г. режиссер Claude Zidi, в ролях Jean-Paul Belmondo и Raquel Welch) |
