smurfer

English

Noun

smurfer (plural smurfers)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• ferrums

French

Etymology

From smurf (“type of breakdance”) +‎ -er (first group verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smœʁ.fe/

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• Rhymes: -e

Verb

smurfer

1. 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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

1. indefinite plural of smurf