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US
/ˈbɹaɪbɝi/
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[ UK /bɹˈaɪbəɹi/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈaɪbəɹi/ ]
NOUN
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
How To Use bribery In A Sentence
- In the end the sentence-for criminal conspiracy, corruption and bribery-was a compromise.
- everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified
- It will be misconstrued as bribery, which is frowned on in legal circles.
- Earlier this year, Felix pled guilty to money-laundering charges growing out of his arrest on drug and bribery charges.
- He spoke of'the most serious breaches of the criminal law in the area of bribery and corruption '. Times, Sunday Times
- Wu continues to plead not guilty to other charges of embezzlement and bribery.
- This shadow economy includes whole industries owned or controlled by organized crime, and rent-seeking and bribery schemes on the part of government officials.
- Cowperwood, disappointed by the outcome of his various ingratiatory efforts, decided to fall back on his old reliable method of bribery. The Titan
- Meeting with his imprisoned father and their family lawyer, Junior hears the older men discuss how to get Elroy Sr. better amenities during his upcoming incarceration through bribery and kickbacks, and what such niceties will cost. 70s Cinema: The Last American Hero « Screaming Blue Reviews
- The first thing that we shall do is to state, and which we shall prove in evidence, that this vice of bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs in India, from the time of their first establishment there. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)