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under the counter adjective

  • (British, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.
 fraudolento, illecito, irregolare

under the counter adverb

  • Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).
 fraudolento, illecitamente, sottobanco, subdolamente
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