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🛠️ To add grease again 💸 To bribe again
to regrease

to regrease

9.9
To give money or gifts again to influence what a person does
  • verb
  • /rɪˈɡriːs/
  • Informal
translation icon : sobornar de nuevo
  • The company decided to regrease the officials after their first attempt failed to secure the contract.

Examples

  • They had to regrease the wheels to get the necessary permits approved on time.

  • He plans to regrease the officials to secure the deal.

  • When progress slowed, the manager considered whether to regrease the process with another payment.

  • Don't regrease anyone!

  • The company decided to regrease the officials after their first attempt failed to secure the contract.

  • To ensure the project moved forward, they felt compelled to regrease the bureaucrats involved in the approval process.

  • After the initial negotiations stalled, he knew he had to regrease the key decision-makers to reach an agreement.

Synonyms

to bribe
vsto regrease
140 4.1

Give money or gifts to a person in authority to make them do something dishonest

repeats such payments to influence the person again
to suborn a public official
vsto regrease
  • Formal
9.9

To bribe a public official to make them do something illegal or dishonest

repeats payments to influence again rather than causing illegal acts

How Corrupt

to regrease
  • Informal
9.9
to pay off
24 5.0
bribe
137 3.6
to tip
87 1.0

Surface Forms

regrease infinitive
regreased past
regreased past participle
regreasing present participle
regreases third person singular

Morphology

regrease = grease (semi-transparent) = re + grease

Given the figurative verb 'grease' meaning 'bribe', adding 're-' transparently yields 'bribe again'.

Etymology

Regrease also uses re- ('again') and grease in a figurative way: from the idea of 'greasing the wheels' or 'greasing someone's palm' to make things move, so to regrease is to give another payment or gift as a bribe to keep things going.