ネームロンダリング

noun

name laundering

Wasei-eigo term for the practice of repeatedly changing one's legal name, often through adult adoptions or sham marriages, to obscure a criminal or undesirable background.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from name laundering

• ネームロンダリングは、犯はん罪ざい歴れきを隠かくすために使つかわれることがある。

  Name laundering is sometimes used to hide a criminal record.

• 彼かれはネームロンダリングで何なん度ども名な前まえを変かえた。

  He changed his name many times through name laundering.