black-bag

American  

[blak-bag] / ˈblækˈbæg /

adjective

Informal.

1. of, relating to, or distributing money for expenses that has been diverted from the regular budget.

   Black-bag funds have paid for much overseas travel by the military.

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Example Sentences

A ban on sending black-bag waste to landfill is effectively being delayed by two years after a BBC Scotland investigation found up to a hundred truckloads of rubbish would have to be transported to England each day.

From BBC

Most public relations companies are eager to get their clients’ names in the media, but Mae is a fixer for a black-bag PR firm.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet, this secrecy is the exception when it comes to so-called sneak and peek or black-bag jobs in the physical world, where law enforcement is required to justify the need for secrecy before conducting a covert search or seizure.

From Washington Post

Felt was a Hoover loyalist; he oversaw the F.B.I.’s pursuit of radical groups like the Weather Underground and instituted illegal searches, known as “black-bag jobs.”

From The New Yorker

At the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover ran a personal empire with bugging and black-bag jobs, not to mention unsubtle blackmailing of politicians with secrets to hide.

From Washington Post