Usually means: Transactions hidden from official record.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word under the counter:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. under the counter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. under-the-counter, under the counter: Merriam-Webster
  3. under the counter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. under-the-counter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. under-the-counter, under-the-counter, under the counter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. under-the-counter: Vocabulary.com
  7. under the counter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. under-the-counter, under the counter: Wiktionary
  9. under-the-counter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. under-the-counter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. under-the-counter, under-the counter, under the counter: Dictionary.com
  12. Under The Counter, Under the Counter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. under-the-counter: Rhymezone
  14. under-the-counter: FreeDictionary.org
  15. under-the-counter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. under-the-counter, under the counter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. under-the-counter, under the counter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. under-the-counter, under the counter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. under the counter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. under-the-counter, under the counter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. under-the-counter, under the counter: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. under the counter: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (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).
adjective:  (British, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.

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