bribe has definitions from the fields of accounting,business,law
1
[ verb ] (law) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

Examples

"This judge can be bought"

Used in print

(Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)

Apparently he bribed one of the guards .

Related terms

pay buy_off sop crime

2
[ noun ] (accounting,business) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment

Synonyms

payoff

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come_upon by a Detective_Sergeant_John_J._Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal_Telegraph_Building ; the jury wanted better evidence than that and he was acquitted , at a cost of $ 30000 in bribes , it was estimated .

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