Bribery
['braɪbərɪ] or ['braɪbəri]
Definition
(noun.) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage.
Typist: Lucas--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Robbery; extortion.
(n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
Edited by Adela
Examples
- She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He made bribery a state method almost more important than warfare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A man cannot serve two masters, and as the question of whose side you would embrace was simply one of bribery, I took advantage of your baseness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The election of Charles was secured, it is to be noted, by a vast amount of bribery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Somebody was saying, said the Rector, laughingly, that East Retford was nothing to Middlemarch, for bribery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Elsie