bribe 的 3 个定义
- 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.
bribed, brib·ing.
- 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.
bribed, brib·ing.
- to give a bribe; practice bribery.
bribe 近义词
payoff to influence illegal or wrong activity
bribe 的近义词 37 个
- blackmail
- compensation
- gift
- graft
- gratuity
- hush money
- incentive
- inducement
- kickback
- perk
- reward
- allurement
- bait
- contract
- enticement
- envelope
- feedbag
- goody
- gravy
- grease
- ice
- lagniappe
- lure
- payola
- perquisite
- present
- price
- protection
- remuneration
- sop
- sweetener
- take
- buyoff
- corrupt money
- corrupting gift
- fringe benefit
- influence peddling
bribe 的反义词 3 个
request silence, action, or inaction for money
更多bribe例句
- There’s been billions in government money unilaterally allocated to “farmers,” but the line on that has been that money is kind of a bribe so that American farmers don’t get mad about the tariffs that have been going on.
- The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which performed these audits, did find that billions of dollars across all projects — though not Yahn’s specifically — had been lost to corruption and bribes.
- There were many organizations that didn’t pay bribes and were able to complete their work.
- She recalled her personal experience standing up to threats and declining bribes.
- It uncovered hefty bribes to get undeserving kids into college with rigged test scores or fake athletic credentials.
- Cocaine busts, tax cheats, and bribe-taking, born-again Christians: Welcome to the political scandals of 2014.
- In a sense, she attempts to bribe the pastor, offering to make his church her home.
- But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need.
- Asked if he did anything wrong, Cianci responded simply, “I was not guilty of conspiracy to take a bribe.”
- “I did not have enough money to bribe the judge, so I decided to become a mercenary,” Mozhayev told a local reporter.
- If you knew an honourable man was to be offered a bribe to do a dishonourable act, you would feel sure he would refuse it.
- It throve because it came with the tempting bribe of Heaven in one hand, and the withering threat of Hell in the other.
- Father is in a rage because I will not stay home; he offered me to-day the deed for two hundred acres as a bribe.
- He tried to bribe us to let him go, and made us repeated offers until he reached a figure as high as ten thousand dollars.
- He said he had sat the whole day at the Central Station watching passengers giving bribe to procure their tickets.