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Look up: Bribe

  1. bribe
    [n] - payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment 2. [v] - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Bribe
    Bribe noun [ French bribe a lump of bread, scraps, leavings of meals (that are generally given to a beggar), Late Latin briba scrap of bread; confer Old French briber , brifer , to eat gluttonously, to beg, and Old High German...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/97

  3. Bribe
    Bribe transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bribed ; present participle & verbal noun Bribing .] 1. To rob or steal. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. 2. To give or pro...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/97

  4. Bribe
    Bribe intransitive verb 1. To commit robbery or theft. [ Obsolete] 2. To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise. « An attempt to bribe<...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/97

  5. bribe
    noun payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. bribe
    corrupt verb make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; `This judge can be bought`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Bribe
    • (n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement. • (v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise. • (v. i.) To commit robbery or theft. • (v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. Bribe
    A payment made to person, often a government official such as a customs officer, to induce favorable treatment.
    Found on http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/

  9. Bribe
    The gift or promise which is accepted of some advantage as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal emolument as a consideration for preferring one person to another in the performance of a legal act.
    Found on http://www.lectlaw.com/def/b116.htm



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