bribe
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3.6
- noun
- /braɪb/
:
soborno
- You'll go to prison for taking bribes and pretending something didn't happen.
- pay bribes
- accept bribes
- take bribes
So you can accept my bribe or you're going to die.
- So you can accept my bribe or you're going to die.
- Regulators may sleep on the job or take bribes or just follow meaningless rules.
- He claims that SEAL paid millions of bribes to the Clintons.
- Synar did not get his license and Leroy did not return the bribe money.
- I'm like Warren, you mean that federal employees take bribes?
- They even have update charts that update weekly on what proportion of households had to pay a bribe in order to receive the transfer.
- Prosecutors are describing the Egyptian bribes as a pyramid scheme.
- It's not a bribe, it says right there.
- There has been more bribes, corruption than anything you've ever seen.
Examples
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We know that they have spies, they have agents, they resort to bribes, they resort to blackmail.
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In some facilities, staff began demanding bribes for the provision of services that should have been free.
Academic text (1993) -
I was offered a bribe.
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Usually, the police official takes a bribe because the revolution has failed the police, too.
Academic text (1996) -
Once the French arrived, flush with bribe money, the party got started.
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You took the bribe.
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Griffin has been known to take bribes from lobbyists.
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In some nations, this control is exercised through outright payments or bribes that are accepted as traditional practices.
Academic text (2002) -
The politician was accused of accepting a bribe to change the law.
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After several investigations, they discovered she received a bribe to approve the contract.
Synonyms
38
8.3
An illegal payment that someone gives to get a contract or official job
31
5.0
Money given secretly to influence someone in power
20
6.3
Money paid to someone to keep quiet about a secret that could cause trouble
How Corrupting
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bribe as a noun comes from the same old French bribe meaning a small 'piece' or 'gift'. A helpful way to remember this is to think of a bribe as a small gift or payment given to make someone act in your favour, which is why a bribe is money or something valuable given to influence a decision.