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Sens

Être un prête-nom, prêter son nom pour des activités illégales ou frauduleuses

Exemple

Descobriram que ele era laranja de um esquema de corrupção.

Ils ont découvert qu'il était le prête-nom d'un système de corruption.

Origine

The origin of laranja ("orange") as slang for a fraud proxy is genuinely disputed — linguists say pinning it down with certainty is close to impossible. The leading theories: a 1970s pyramid scheme among political prisoners, where a "limão" ("lemon") recruited unwitting "laranjas" who rarely saw their money again; police slang for suspects who gave up accomplices once pressured; and a rumored 1980s scandal involving orange growers used as fronts in a bank fraud.