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What does ill-gotten mean?

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Adjective
  1. Obtained improperly or illegally.
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The criminals told police that they spent their ill-gotten gains in local entertainment venues in town.
The sector could easily be taken over by criminal elements to launder their ill-gotten gains.
The programme shows how Britain's richest criminals made their ill-gotten gains, laundered it and spent it.
They would then go and fence their ill-gotten gains, before returning to the streets to prowl once more.
All Australian jurisdictions have comprehensive schemes to strip criminals of all forms of ill-gotten gain.
There is to be a new law enabling the authorities to impound property that it suspects, but cannot prove, is the ill-gotten gains of crime.

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