cook the books
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
To falsify a company's financial records in order to mislead about its true position.
The former finance director was accused of cooking the books to hide the mounting losses from investors.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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