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bribing

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

贿赂,行贿,贿买,贿选

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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
  1. 1

    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.

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Examples

  • After serving as the area’s alderman from 1983 to 1987, he was convicted of taking a bribe from an FBI informant and served 3½ years in prison.

  • In 2016 court testimony, Sinovac’s founder and chief executive, Yin Weidong, admitted to giving more than $83,000 in bribes from 2002 to 2011 to a regulatory official overseeing vaccine reviews, Yin Hongzhang, and his wife.

  • James Jensen, who allegedly requested the bribes, were also indicted.

  • A California district attorney accused Apple chief security officer Thomas Moyer of offering a bribe to state officials, according to indictments issued on Monday.

  • A department head was jailed in 2016 for taking bribes from Imtech, the contractor that went bankrupt.

  • He answers in the subtitle: “Probably not—and government should stop bribing people to stay there.”

  • His usual trick: bribing the night watchman to let him into the bank.

  • Two charges of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office (bribing officials) ranging from 2004 to 2012.

  • In the late 1980s several generic-drug companies were caught fabricating data and bribing FDA officials to gain approval.

  • The attorney scoffs at the idea that Gristina avoided arrest for so many years by bribing the police.

  • Fox set about the business of securing a majority in the commons by bribing members.

  • The fortune of war going against him, he secured an advantageous peace by bribing the Roman general.

  • And authority, p. 33by bribing people to conform, produces a very gross kind of over-fed barbarism amongst us.

  • The news that the king was hiring Germans and bribing the Indians on the frontier to make trouble, made the Americans very angry.

  • Obviously he was a ship's officer, and as such he must be one of the syndicate whom Captain White and I were bribing.

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