bribe

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

贿赂,行贿,贿赂他人,贿赂别人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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
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

nounpayoff to influence illegal or wrong activity

Forms: bribed, bribing

Synonyms

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.

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

贿赂,行贿,贿赂他人,贿赂别人

n.名词 noun

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
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

nounpayoff to influence illegal or wrong activity

Forms: bribed, bribing

Synonyms

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.