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(bribes, bribing, bribed) 1. A bribe is a sum of money or something valuable that one person offers or gives to another in order to persuade him or her to do something. He was being investigated for receiving bribes. N-COUNT 2. If one person bribes another, they give them a bribe. He was accused of bribing a senior bank official... The government bribed the workers to be quiet. VERB: V n, V n to-inf
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, morsel given to a beggar, ~, from Anglo-French, morsel Date: 15th century 1. money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust 2. something that serves to induce or influence II. verb (~d; bribing) Date: 1528 transitive verb to induce or influence by or as if by ~ry intransitive verb to practice ~ry • bribable adjective • ~e noun • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. (often foll. by to + infin.) persuade (a person etc.) to act improperly in one's favour by a gift of money, services, etc. (bribed the guard to release the suspect). --n. money or services offered in the process of bribing. Derivatives bribable adj. briber n. bribery n. Etymology: ME f. OF briber, brimber beg, of unkn. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. сущ. взятка, подкуп Syn: secret commission 2. гл. предлагать, давать взятку, подкупать ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. взятка, подкуп to take bribes —- брать взятки to offer (to give, to hand out) bribes —- давать взятки 2. компенсация; оплата 3. предлагать, давать взятку, подкупать to bribe a judge —- подкупить судью the child was bribed to take the medicine —- ребенка задобрили, чтобы он выпил лекарство he had been bribed into silence (to say nothing) —- его подкупом заставили молчать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 v to pay money to someone to persuade them to help you, especially by doing something dishonest (bribe sb to do sth) (We bribed the doorman to let us in. | bribe sb for sth) (prisoners bribing guards with cigarettes) ~2 n an amount of money or something valuable that you give someone to persuade them to help you or to do something dishonest (a New York judge charged with accepting bribes) (- compare payola) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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