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bribe
[ brahyb ]
noun
- money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc.:
The motorist offered the arresting officer a bribe to let him go.
- anything given or serving to persuade or induce:
The children were given candy as a bribe to be good.
verb (used with object)
- to give or promise a bribe to:
They bribed the reporter to forget about what he had seen.
- to influence or corrupt by a bribe:
The judge was too honest to be bribed.
verb (used without object)
- to give a bribe; practice bribery.
bribe
/ 产谤补瑟产 /
verb
- to promise, offer, or give something, usually money, to (a person) to procure services or gain influence, esp illegally
noun
- a reward, such as money or favour, given or offered for this purpose
- any persuasion or lure
- a length of flawed or damaged cloth removed from the main piece
Derived Forms
- 藞产谤颈产补产濒别, adjective
- 藞产谤颈产别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 产谤颈产顎僡路产濒别 产谤颈产别顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 产谤颈产顎卆路产颈濒顎僫路迟测 产谤颈产别顎卆路产颈濒顎僫路迟测 noun
- 产谤颈产路别别顎 noun
- 产谤颈产顎侥谤 noun
- 辞耻迟顎卋谤颈产别顎 verb (used with object) outbribed outbribing
- un路产谤颈产顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 耻苍路产谤颈产顎僡路产濒测 adverb
- 耻苍路产谤颈产别诲顎 adjective
- 耻苍路产谤颈产顎僫苍驳 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bribe1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bribe1
Example Sentences
He received more than $550,000 in bribes from money slated to buy meals for elderly Little Saigon residents 鈥 shocking the political establishment of the county.
Mac-Albert Hengari was arrested on Saturday after allegedly attempting to bribe the victim, now 21, to withdraw the case against him, the police say.
He took bribes and skimmed cash from informants.
He bribed women to have babies with hints of massive paydays, but then reneged on the deal when they asked for normal father behavior, like acknowledging paternity.
A former top Russian general has been jailed for seven years after being accused of taking bribes.
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What does听bribe mean?
A bribe is money or something else of value offered or given to someone to get them to do something you want them to do, especially something they鈥檙e not supposed to do.
Bribe can also be used as a verb meaning to offer or give someone a bribe. The act of doing so is called bribery.
In most cases, this refers to the often illegal act of offering money to people in official positions, like politicians, government officials, or sports referees, in order to get them to change an outcome to be more favorable to the person offering the bribe. For example, a businessperson might bribe a senator to vote a certain way, which is of course illegal.
Bribe can also refer to offering an incentive (or the incentive itself) to someone to do something, especially a child, as in I tried bribing the kids with TV time as a reward for cleaning up their room, but apparently even bribes don鈥檛 work because they didn鈥檛 do it.听
Example: The video clearly shows the lobbyist presenting the senator a briefcase full of money as a bribe for a favorable vote鈥攊t鈥檚 an open-and-shut case of bribery.
Where does听bribe come from?
The first records of the word bribe come from the 1300s (though of course people have certainly been bribing each other for much longer than that). It comes from a Middle French word meaning 鈥渞emnant of food given as alms.鈥
Bribery is often illegal. Bribing government officials is always illegal, and this is the kind of bribe you often hear about in the news, when such corruption has been uncovered. A bribe like this can result in prison time. But bribes frequently happen in much less official situations. The classic example is slipping the host at a restaurant a bribe to get a table without a reservation. While such bribes aren鈥檛 illegal, they鈥檙e almost always unethical.
What鈥檚 the difference between bribery and extortion? Extortion is basically the act of requiring a bribe from someone, or forcing someone to provide money or favors in some other corrupt way.
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How is听bribe used in real life?
The word bribe is most often used in a legal context referring to corruption cases involving officials who have taken money in exchange for doing something they shouldn鈥檛.
Concern in is potential for bribing players. Fantasy/betting operations will have integrity tested
鈥 Darren Heitner (@DarrenHeitner)
PENNSYLVANIA. Disgraced ex-Cong Michael "Ozzie" Myers (D), 77, who served 3 years in fed prison for taking bribes in the 1979 ABSCAM scandal, is now a campaign consultant and apparently a central figure in the latest Philly criminal vote buying scandal.
鈥 Politics1.com (@Politics1com)
All I鈥檓 saying is that when I risk prison to bribe my kids鈥 way into college, it won鈥檛 be USC
鈥 Taffy Brodesser-Akner (@taffyakner)
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Is bribe used correctly in the following sentence?
Just because the bribe wasn鈥檛 money doesn鈥檛 mean this isn鈥檛 a case of bribery.
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