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bribe

 (brīb)
n.
1. Money or some other benefit given to a person in power, especially a public official, in an effort to cause the person to take a particular action.
2. Something offered to induce another to do something: tried to use dessert as a bribe to get the child to cooperate.
v. bribed, brib·ing, bribes
v.tr.
To give, offer, or promise a bribe to.
v.intr.
To give, offer, or promise bribes.
[Middle English, from Old French, piece of bread given as alms.]
brib′a·ble adj.
brib′er n.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.briber - someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful actbriber - someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
suborner
criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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