bribe

[Bribe]

You pay a bribe to get someone to do something they wouldn't do otherwise. It's usually dishonest and often criminal.

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A gift begged; a present.

Noun
payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment

Verb
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"

n.
A gift begged; a present.

n.
A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.

n.
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.

v. t.
To rob or steal.

v. t.
To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.

v. t.
To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.

v. i.
To commit robbery or theft.

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.

Bribe

Bribe , n. [F. bribe a lump of bread, scraps, leavings of meals (that are generally given to a beggar), LL. briba scrap of bread; cf. OF. briber, brifer, to eat gluttonously, to beg, and OHG. bilibi food.] 1. A gift begged; a present. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.

Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.

3. That which seduces; seduction; allurement.

Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.

Bribe

Bribe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bribed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bribing.] 1. To rob or steal. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.

Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.

3. To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.

Bribe

Bribe, v. i. 1. To commit robbery or theft. [Obs.] 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, though unsuccessful, has been holden to be criminal, and the offender may be indicted.

The bard may supplicate, but cannot bribe.

A gift begged; a present.

To rob or steal.

To commit robbery or theft.

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Usage Examples

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

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Other Usage Examples

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.