smurfer
English
Noun
smurfer (plural smurfers)
- Someone who engages in money laundering by making many transactions, each of which is for an amount below the threshold that requires the bank to report the transaction.
- 1986, Washington Financial Reports - Volume 47, page 973:
- He argued that the government would have to show that the smurfer knew about the banks ' filing requirements and deliberately structured his transaction to avoid the requirements.
- 1992, Joel M. Androphy, White collar crime - Part 1, page 290:
- Assume a smurfer goes to the bank numerous times in one day, and each time buys a cashier's check with cash for an amount less then $10,000, but in total greater than $10,000.
- 2013, Philip Bean, Drugs and Crime, page 161:
- In one interesting case, a smurfer was caught with a number of caches of monies to be deposited. He told the police, correctly, that the monies did not belong to him. When the police compounded the monies the smurfer wisely asked for a receipt. He would have to convince his immediate superiors that he had not kept the monies himself.
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Anagrams
- ferrums
French
Etymology
smurf (“type of breakdance”) + -er (first group verb-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smœʁ.fe/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
Verb
smurfer
- to breakdance
Conjugation
Conjugation of smurfer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | smurfer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | smurfant /smyʁ.fɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | smurfé /smyʁ.fe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | smurfe /smyʁf/ | smurfes /smyʁf/ | smurfe /smyʁf/ | smurfons /smyʁ.fɔ̃/ | smurfez /smyʁ.fe/ | smurfent /smyʁf/ |
| imperfect | smurfais /smyʁ.fɛ/ | smurfais /smyʁ.fɛ/ | smurfait /smyʁ.fɛ/ | smurfions /smyʁ.fjɔ̃/ | smurfiez /smyʁ.fje/ | smurfaient /smyʁ.fɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | smurfai /smyʁ.fe/ | smurfas /smyʁ.fa/ | smurfa /smyʁ.fa/ | smurfâmes /smyʁ.fam/ | smurfâtes /smyʁ.fat/ | smurfèrent /smyʁ.fɛʁ/ | |
| future | smurferai /smyʁ.fə.ʁe/ | smurferas /smyʁ.fə.ʁa/ | smurfera /smyʁ.fə.ʁa/ | smurferons /smyʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/ | smurferez /smyʁ.fə.ʁe/ | smurferont /smyʁ.fə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | smurferais /smyʁ.fə.ʁɛ/ | smurferais /smyʁ.fə.ʁɛ/ | smurferait /smyʁ.fə.ʁɛ/ | smurferions /smyʁ.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ | smurferiez /smyʁ.fə.ʁje/ | smurferaient /smyʁ.fə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | smurfe /smyʁf/ | smurfes /smyʁf/ | smurfe /smyʁf/ | smurfions /smyʁ.fjɔ̃/ | smurfiez /smyʁ.fje/ | smurfent /smyʁf/ |
| imperfect2 | smurfasse /smyʁ.fas/ | smurfasses /smyʁ.fas/ | smurfât /smyʁ.fa/ | smurfassions /smyʁ.fa.sjɔ̃/ | smurfassiez /smyʁ.fa.sje/ | smurfassent /smyʁ.fas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | smurfe /smyʁf/ | — | smurfons /smyʁ.fɔ̃/ | smurfez /smyʁ.fe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “smurfer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Noun
smurfer
- indefinite plural of smurf.