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bribe

/brahyb/US // braɪb //UK // (braɪb) //

贿赂,行贿,贿赂他人,贿赂别人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
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    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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bribed, brib·ing.

    • : to give a bribe; practice bribery.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounpayoff to influence illegal or wrong activity
Forms: bribed, bribing
Synonyms
blackmail勒索,敲诈,敲诈勒索,讹诈compensation补偿,赔偿金,赔偿,补偿金gift礼物,礼品,馈赠,赠品graft嫁接,移植,嫁接法,嫁妆gratuity小费,酬金,奖金,赏金hush money掩口费,掩饰费,嘘嘘费,掩人耳目的钱incentive奖励,激励,奖励措施,激励措施inducement诱因,诱惑,诱导,引诱kickback回扣,踢回扣,返利,踢回力perk补贴,补助金,补助,奖励reward奖励,奖赏,报酬,奖金allurement诱导,诱惑,诱捕,诱惑力bait诱饵,饵料,饵,鱼饵contract合同,签约,契约,契约书enticement诱惑,诱骗,诱使,诱人envelope笼罩,笼罩着,笼罩面,笼子feedbag饲料袋,饲料包,喂食袋,饲养袋goody好东西,好事,好的,美好的gravy肉汁,肉汁的,芡实,调味料grease油脂,油腻,油腻的,油烟ice冰,结冰,制冰,冰冰lagniappe滞销品,滞销产品,滞销商品,滞留lure诱骗,诱惑,引诱,诱诱payola贿赂,贿赂行为,贿赂罪,骗局perquisite赏金,奖金,小费,赏钱present目前,现在,当前price价格,价钱,价格方面,价位protection保护,保护措施,保护工作,保护作用remuneration酬金,报酬,薪酬,酬金方面sop啪啪啪,啪啪,啪,啪啪声sweetener甜味剂,甘味剂,甜食剂,甜食take采纳,采纳了buyoff买断,收购,收买,购买corrupt money贪污的钱,腐败的钱,贪污腐败的钱,贪污钱财corrupting gift腐败的礼物,腐朽的礼物,腐蚀的礼物,腐败的礼品fringe benefit附带福利,附带津贴,附带利益,附带的福利influence peddling势力范围,兜揽生意,势力范围内,势力范围内的兜售

Examples

  • 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.