BRIBERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bribery mean? 

• BRIBERY (noun)
  The noun BRIBERY has 1 sense:

1. the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

  Familiarity information: BRIBERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIBERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bribery; graft

Hypernyms ("bribery" is a kind of...):

felony (a serious crime (such as murder or arson))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bribery"):

barratry (the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery)

commercial bribery (bribery of a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into a transaction)

Derivation:

bribe (make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence)

 Context examples 

She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything, and we are well supplied with money.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The palace of a chief minister is a seminary to breed up others in his own trade: the pages, lackeys, and porters, by imitating their master, become ministers of state in their several districts, and learn to excel in the three principal ingredients, of insolence, lying, and bribery.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)